Tinder will be asked to explain how convicted rapist and killer Ian Horgan joined app

Tinder to receive an official request, lodged through the US Justice Department, to provide details as to how convicted rapist and killer Ian Horgan applied to join the dating app

Convicted killer Ian Horgan outside court in Macroom today. He was previously jailed for the rape and killing of beautician Rachel Kiely in 2002.

Tinder is to receive an official request, lodged through the US Justice Department, to provide details as to how convicted rapist and killer Ian Horgan applied to join the dating app, with a court hearing the process may take up to eight months.

Horgan, aged 37, and with an address at 53 Byrne Avenue, Prospect in Co Limerick, has denied a breach of the Sex Offenders Act 2001, after gardaí alleged that between May 24 and 31 last he failed to notify them of a name - Cian - that he was using on the app that had not been previously notified.