Playwright jailed for 16 years for rape
A playwright and arts administrator has been jailed for 16 years by Mr Justice Henry Abbott for raping a woman following a drugs and alcohol party in his Drogheda flat.
Francis Condra (aged 46), of Upper Magdelene Street, Drogheda, a former member of the Irish Army and a father of a teenage daughter, was found guilty in February by a jury at the Central Criminal Court of raping and falsely imprisoning the woman on November 8, 2003.
