Man gets 15 years for abusing niece

A Clare resident who began sexually abusing his Limerick niece from the age of six has been jailed for 15 years at the Central Criminal Court.

The 48-year-old man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, later began raping the child from when she was aged nine on a regular basis in his bedsit in Co Clare.

The court heard how the child would beg her mother not to let her stay over with him, telling her: “Please Mum, don’t let me go, I’ll be good.”