A man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for the attempted rape of a teenage girl he met at a Killarney disco last Christmas Eve 2004.
James Cronin (24) of Freemount, Rathmore is already serving an eight-year sentence for kidnapping and raping another woman he also met outside a Killarney disco in the early hours of the morning of October 31, 2004.
Mr Justice Kevin O'Higgins sentenced Cronin at the Central Criminal Court saying he presented a continuing risk to society.
The judge said the 17-year-old victim had shown courage and had been caused huge distress and had it not been for the intervention of another man she might have been raped by Cronin.
Mr Justice O'Higgins noted that Cronin's current sentence was due to expire in 2012 and directed that the seven year term for the attempted rape was to commence when he finished that sentence.
He also directed that Cronin undergo seven years post release supervision.