The man (22) admitted raping the 13-year-old girl and falsely imprisoning her 16-year-old friend after he drove the teenage girls to buy weed in Co Tipperary on June 22nd last year

The 61-year-old Dublin man was found guilty on four counts of defilement

The four children were aged between 12 and 17 at the time of the offending.

The girl had been friends with the man's teenage nephews and was a girlfriend of one of them for a time, the court heard

The defilement of the child occurred at a location in Co Cavan in 2017.

The now 17-year-old boy was previously given a four-year sentence that was deferred on certain conditions and which could be activated, suspended or partially suspended on the deferred date.

The sentencing court heard that in the aftermath of the offences the girl had suffered with anxiety, depression and had been suicidal