Paedophile, 81, jailed for raping and assaulting niece

A convicted paedophile has been jailed for seven years for raping and sexually assaulting his niece.

The 81-year-old man was found guilty last May by a Central Criminal Court jury of raping and indecently assaulting the child in August 1971 in Co Clare. He had denied the two charges.

He was jailed for four and a half years last year after conviction by another Central Criminal Court jury of 11 counts of indecently assaulting one daughter in Clare between January 1971 and December 1973, and a second daughter in 1980. Both girls were aged between 11 and 13 years at the time.