Gheorghe Goidan was jailed for 20 years on the in 2019 for the "ultra-violent" rape of two sex workers on the same day in separate hotels has failed in a bid to have his conviction quashed and his sentence reduced on appeal.
After arranging to meet them in hotel rooms, he pulled a knife and threatened them before repeatedly assaulting and raping both women in two separate attacks.
He had pleaded not guilty to rape and sexual assault at a hotel in Portlaoise on September 7, 2017.
He had also denied rape, oral rape and anal rape of a second woman at the Maldron Hotel in Galway city on the same day.