A candle-light vigil was held in Ennis, Co Clare last night in support of rape victim Mary Shannon who earlier this week asked the DPP to appeal the sentence handed down to her attacker.
On Monday, Adam Keane (20), from Darragh near Ennis, received a three-year suspended sentence after he was found guilty in February of raping the mother of three in her home in May 2005.
The 40 people attending promised to hold other vigils and to make mandatory sentences for rapists an election issue.