A coroner has pleaded with young people to heed the words of the brave Kerry teenager Donal Walsh, who is battling terminal cancer, and think twice before taking their lives.

The Court of Criminal Appeal has reduced the prison sentence imposed on a young Kerryman jailed for aggravated sexual assaults on two women, which occurred within weeks of each other, from 11 to nine years.

A Kerry teenager whose aggravated sexual assaults of two women within weeks included a threat to kill the second victim has today been jailed for 11 years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.