Cork man tells trial: 'No way was I dating love of my life and coming home to rape my sister'

The defendant denies five counts of raping his sister and 28 counts of indecent assault. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

A Cork man on trial for raping his sister approximately 45 years ago said he had just met the love of his life at that time and there was no way he was going out on dates with her and then coming home to do horrific things to his young sister.

When asked today about allegedly telling his brother  — when the rape allegations were made in 2018 — that it was touching and feeling and experimenting but no sexual intercourse, he said he never had that conversation with his brother. And he referred to the fact that his brother made a second statement last week in which he denied ever attributing such comments to the defendant when questioned by gardaí two years ago.