A Connemara man has been jailed for nine years by Mr Justice Carney for raping a female relative in the 1980s.
Supt Michael Curley told Mr Marcus Daly SC, prosecuting, that to allow him to commit sexual acts he would promise her that her father would return from the dead.
The 36-year-old single man pleaded guilty at the Central Criminal Court to four charges of raping the girl and three charges of indecently assaulting her over a six-year period between June 1982 and September 1988.
Supt Curley said the sexual abuse took place when the victim was between nine and 15.