Four arrested over alleged rape

Gardai investigating the reported rape of two teenage girls in west Dublin arrested four young men yesterday and are preparing…

Gardai investigating the reported rape of two teenage girls in west Dublin arrested four young men yesterday and are preparing a file for the Direct of Public Prosecutions.

The girls, aged 15 and 17, went to Cabra Garda station late on Wednesday night saying they had been abducted, taken to a derelict building and raped by a gang of young men.

The men, in their early 20s, were released yesterday afternoon.

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