Man to be sentenced for raping boy, 12

A Tipperary man who raped a 12-year-old boy after luring him down a lane will be sentenced next week.

Andrew Roche (28), with an address in Nelson Street, Clonmel, Tipperary, pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to one count of orally raping the boy and one count of anally raping him on a date between December 25, 2008 and March 17, 2009.