Teenager given nine years detention for rape

A Longford teenager who beat a then 13-year-old girl "to pulp" and viciously raped her after she blacked out from his attempts to strangle her has been given nine years detention.

Michael McDonagh (aged 16), of St Mel’s Road, Longford told his victim it was "the best Valentine’s night" he ever had. He had absconded earlier from two St Michael’s House care workers.