The 24-year-old Carlow man, who cannot be named to protect the young woman’s identity, was convicted following a trial earlier this year of the rape and sexual assault of the teenager at his home on a date in August 2023.

One powder that the HSE analysed and found to contain six substances, with another containing a drug never identified before in Ireland (2-FMA)

The now 24-year-old Slovenian man, initially met the girl in 2022 through the game Roblox

ISPCC chief executive John Church called on social media platforms to do more to protect children from harmful content

Research focused on patterns of adversity which young people experienced across home, peer and school contexts

Martin Hayes' defence team, pointed out a postmortem examination found that the single stab wound to Ms McDermott's abdomen could be "consistent with self-harm", as is contended by the defence.