It is 30 years since the first statue appeared to move in Ballinspittle, but it was to become a summer of such phenomena, writes Eddie Cassidy

“IN 1995 the police in Greater Manchester seized the grand total of 12 indecent images of children. All of them were on paper or on video. In 1999 we seized 41,000, all bar three of which had come from the internet. Today we don’t bother counting. There’s no point.”

Child protection experts believe there are many people around the country taking abusive images of children. Colette Keane reports on how gardaí may have just hit the tip of the iceberg.

A PROJECT initiated by University College Cork is helping to track down paedophiles globally.