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Convicted rapist Larry Murphy has been released from Dublin’s Arbour Hill prison after serving 10½ years of a 15-year jail term, one year of which was suspended.

Wearing a black hooded top, baseball cap and sunglasses, Murphy (45), a father of two from Baltinglass in Co Wicklow, got into a taxi outside the prison in the north inner city shortly after 10am.