"Take back your life; break the silence": survivor speaks as father is jailed for 18 years

A man formerly of Foxford, County Mayo, has been sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court for the systematic sexual abuse of his daughter spanning thirteen years. The offender, aged sixty-one and a former member of the Irish Defence Forces, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of rape, indecent assault, and sexual assault perpetrated between nineteen eighty-eight and two thousand and one…