Man raped his daughter 61 times

A Cork father of nine who brutally raped his teenage daughter on a weekly basis when she was aged between 16 and 17 has been jailed for nine years.

Patrick O’Driscoll, aged 42, with an address in Codrum, Macroom, Co Cork, was found guilty by a jury of 61 counts of raping his eldest daughter, Ellen O’Driscoll, between 2008 and 2009. He had denied the charges.

In Central Criminal Court yesterday, Mr Justice Paul Butler said O’Driscoll’s abuse of his daughter “tore the family apart”.