Laois man pleads guilty to rape

A Co Laois man who raped a female over a four year period will be sentenced in March at the Central Criminal Court.

The 74 year-old man pleaded guilty to 16 charges of raping the female on various dates from 1977 to 1981 and to one charge of indecently assaulting her on a date between May 1976 and 1977 in a shed.