'Truly shocking': 20 years for abuser who starved children and forced them to drink urine

A 70-year-old Sligo man has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment at the Central Criminal Court following his guilty plea to systematic sexual abuse inflicted on five of his children over a two-decade period. Noel Farrell of Rathedmond Estate pleaded guilty to three counts of rape and 19 counts of indecent assault and sexual assault, with offences occurring at various addresses throughout County Sligo. The abuse…