Alleged IRA man jailed for raping two teen boys refused extra time for appeal

A Central Criminal Court jury found Seamus Marley guilty on six counts of sexual assault and two counts of rape following a six-day trial in May 2019. Picture: iStock

An alleged IRA man jailed for raping teenage boys at a ‘republican safe house’ over two decades ago, and who was subject to ‘severe’ verbal abuse by other inmates in prison, has been refused more time to lodge an appeal against conviction.

The Court of Appeal ruled that there wasn’t even ‘a modest degree of optimism’ that any of Seamus Marley’s grounds of appeal might succeed.