A rape victim has asked the Director of Public Prosecutions to appeal a suspended sentence handed down to a man at the Central criminal Court yesterday.
20-year-old Adam Keane from Daragh, Co Clare, was given a three-year suspended sentence for rape by Mr Justice Paul Carney.
Mary Shannon from Ennis, a mother of three children, waived her right to anonymity in an attempt to get a stronger sentence for the man who broke into her home and raped her.
Speaking on RTÉ's Liveline she said she was devastated by the outcome of the trial.
She said she had to share a train with her rapist on the way back from the case yesterday.
