'It's finally over': Daughters relieved as father loses appeal against 10-year sentence for rape

A man who repeatedly raped his daughter during the 1980s in their family home in Youghal, Co. Cork has lost an appeal against his 10-year sentence.

'It's finally over': Daughters relieved as father loses appeal against 10-year sentence for rape

A man who repeatedly raped his daughter during the 1980s in their family home in Youghal, Co. Cork has lost an appeal against his 10-year sentence.

Jerry O’Keefe, a 68-year-old retired soldier, also abused her younger sister and forced her to withdraw a complaint she made when she was 16.

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