Daughters lived in ‘horror of a home’

A man who sexually assaulted his four young daughters in a “horror of a home” has been jailed for four-and-a-half years.

Judge Patrick McCartan said Mayo native Bernard Cunningham, aged 66, has never shown any remorse for subjecting his children to “unspeakable mental and physical cruelty”.

In April, a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court returned unanimous guilty verdicts on eight charges of indecent and sexual assault committed between 1978 and 1992.