Man who worked as carer jailed for historic rape and abuse of niece

Sean McDonald, aged 62, of Tawneymachugh, Manorhamilton, County Leitrim, has been sentenced to six years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his guilty plea to 11 representative counts of rape and sexual assault of a child between 1977 and 1982. The victim, who was aged seven to eleven during the period of abuse, waived her anonymity with the court's agreement. The offences occurred in Glencar…