Man gets seven years for raping nine-year-old granddaughter

A 75-year-old man who raped his then-nine-year-old granddaughter in a Wexford town in 1994 has been jailed for seven years by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

The west Dublin pensioner admitted he raped her in July 1994 and also pleaded guilty to six further charges of sexually assaulting her on dates from 1992 to 1998.