style="text-align: left;">A 38-year-old mother-of-three is suing her father who sexually abused her from the age of two or three.

Ailish Smith of Clarehall, Dublin says her parents told her while she was a teenager that no-one would believe her and they threatened that she’d wind up St Ita’s mental hospital.

Newstalk’s Courts Correspondent Francesca Comyn reports:

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