Ex-swim coach Derry O'Rourke convicted of raping teenage girl

Sexual assaults took place 35 years ago when O'Rourke was coaching the then 13-year-old girl, court heard

Derry O’Rourke is a convicted rapist, having been jailed for 12 years in January 1998 after he pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to 29 offences involving 11 girls on dates between 1976 and 1992. File picture

Former Irish international swimming coach Derry O’Rourke has been convicted of raping and sexually assaulting a teenage girl 35 years ago.

Derry O’Rourke, 78, of Virgina Road, Cavan, had pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to one count of rape and 15 counts of indecent assault in the school on dates between October 1989 and June 1990. The complainant was between 13 and 14 years old at the time.