A Sligo man has been convicted of raping and sexually assaulting his teenage daughter.
The Central Criminal Court jury found the 46-year-old man guilty of rape on a date between April and June 2006 and one count of sexual assault on a date between March and June 2006.
The jurors were unable to agree a verdict on three further counts of sexual assault. They had been deliberating for five hours and four minutes in total on day six of the trial.
The man, who can not be named for legal reasons, had pleaded not guilty to one count of rape and four counts of sexual assault on dates between September 2005 and June 2006. The girl was aged between 14 and 15 at the time of the offences.
Miss Justice Elizabeth Dunne thanked the jury of four women and eight men for their attention to the case and excused them from further service for five years.
Miss Justice Dunne ordered the man be registered as a sex offender and ordered the preparation of a victim impact report. She set a sentence date of December 8th next.