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Spanish tourist raped in Dublin wants to meet 'monstrous' attacker 'to ask how he could be so cruel'
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The rape victim said: 'I want to know if he believes his own lies. I want him to truly see me and be forced to see himself as monstrous as I saw him'
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Woman claims her mother was in the room when she was allegedly raped by her uncle at five years old
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Garda impersonated colleague to incite men online to come to her home and rape her
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Shane Flanagan (39) impersonated the woman on a well-known fetish website and on Facebook for the purpose of arranging for people to come to her home and rape her
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Woman brought rolling pin to bed to fight off rapist husband: 'I could not cope'
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A Central Criminal Court jury later convicted the man on one charge of rape
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Teen boy to face trial accused of attempted rape of woman in Dublin pub
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The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared before Judge Brendan Toale at the Dublin Children’s Court
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Man jailed for eight and half years for rape of intoxicated teenager
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The incident occurred when the injured party travelled to Dublin to attend a concert but was refused entry as she was underage
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New trial date set for former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson and wife after health delay
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Jeffrey Donaldson, 62, has pleaded not guilty to 18 alleged offences, which include one count of rape as well as allegations of indecent assault and gross indecency
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Woman, her brother and another man accused of rape of her young daughter
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The complainant’s mother, her uncle, and another man face a total of 21 counts of sexual assault and rape
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Rapist who attacked woman days after arriving in Ireland given more jail time
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Randi Gladstone (41), formerly from Guyana, raped, sexually assaulted and falsely imprisoned a young woman, having only been in Ireland for two weeks
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Man raped twice by farmer tells court: 'I'm a ghost of the man I used to be'
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Thomas “Tossy” Nyhan (60) from Crookstown, Co Cork, was convicted following a trial at the Central Criminal Court sitting in Limerick last May
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Dublin firefighter accused of US rape takes to the stand at trial and says: 'I hit the panic button'
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Irish firefighter Terence Crosbie took the stand today at Suffolk Superior Court in Boston today
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Teen boys who raped girl at Limerick Racecourse carpark learn fate amid heavy garda presence
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The court heard the daytime attack against the girl involved humiliation and degradation and was committed by offenders of a very young age
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Convicted rapist jailed for threats and harassment of three female Sunday World journalists
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The court heard McAnaw repeatedly sent the three women emails and messages of a violent and sexually threatening nature, which escalated to him threatening to put a "bullet" in one of them
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Two Irish tourists arrested on suspicion of raping Irish woman in Magaluf hotel
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The alleged sex attack at the centre of the probe occurred in the early hours of this morning
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Russell Brand pleads not guilty to charges of rape and sexual assault
Russell Brand
Brand is accused of raping a woman in a hotel room, orally raping a TV worker and grabbing the forearm of another woman and attempting to drag her into a male toilet
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Calls to Dublin Rape Crisis Centre reach record high
Dublin Rape Crisis Centre
Chief executive of DRCC Rachel Morrogh said contacts with the helpline broke the 20,000 mark for the first time in 2024
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Convicted rapist jailed for harassing and threatening to kill his former teenage partner
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The 57-year-old man was jailed for 10 years last year after he pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to raping a 16-year-old girl in his home in June 2018
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Jury retires to consider verdict in trial of married farmer accused of rape of farmhand
Limerick
The accused's barrister suggested the complainant had asked the accused for money for sex and that he had removed his own pants and underpants
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Conor McGregor's lawyers seek to introduce new evidence from Nikita Hand's neighbour in appeal
Conor McGregor
At the Court of Appeal today, Remy Farrell SC, for Mr McGregor, said a couple have come forward with fresh evidence in the case, with the female claiming she saw Nikita Hand's then-partner assaulting Ms Hand at her home
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Russell Brand appears in court to face rape and sexual assault charges
Russell Brand
Brand, who has hosted shows such as Big Brother’s Big Mouth and been a presenter on BBC radio, denies the allegations
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Man bids to overturn conviction for rape of girl (7) over lack of corroboration warning
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The trial heard that the now 55-year-old man offered the little girl treats and proceeded to sexually assault her, and on one occasion he bent her over the bed and raped her
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Man appears in court charged with raping the same woman on 35 occasions in Donegal
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The accused, who is now in his 50s, is alleged to have carried out a litany of sexual offences at various locations in Donegal in the 1980s
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Man who claims married farmer raped him compares alleged attacks to 'barbed wire'
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'He violated me... he thought it was funny.' Married farmer accused of rape of farmhand after shopping trip
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