Gardaí monitor serial rapist on holiday in Cork

Gardaí are closely monitoring the movements of a serial rapist from England who is on holidays in West Cork.

Robert James Murray, 62, who lives near Bristol, arrived at Cork Airport from Bristol Airport on Thursday with a female companion and a teenage boy.

Murray, a registered sex offender who has four convictions for violent rape and other sex crimes, some carried out at knifepoint, was quizzed by undercover gardaí about his travel plans before he and his party left for a holiday home in Kinsale.