Gardai have released 6 out of 7 people they'd been questioning in connection with the alleged rape of a young girl in south county Dublin.

Five men aged between 19 and 47 and two women in their forties were detained in Dublin and Wexford yesterday.

Six have been released without charge, and files are being prepared for the DPP, while one of the women arrested is still in custody this morning.

Security Editor with the Irish Independent Tom Brady says the alleged abuse was carried out over five years: