GAA coach who repeatedly raped teenage boy denied leave to appeal increased sentence

Supreme Court noted the man’s appeal over the length of the increased sentence concerned a case involving 30 counts of oral rape, 37 counts of sexual assault, an attempted oral rape, false imprisonment, assault causing harm and criminal damage

Court of Appeal had increased man's sentence by four years to 14 and a half years.

A child-rapist GAA coach who “destroyed” a boy’s life has been denied leave by the Supreme Court to appeal against a four-year increase in his sentence for what a judge found were "unusual, shocking and extremely disturbing" crimes.

At the Central Criminal Court in December 2021, the man, who cannot be identified in order to protect the victim’s identity, was sentenced to 10 and a half years imprisonment with the final 18 months suspended, by Mr Justice Michael MacGrath.