A 71-year-old retired carpenter who sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy at a swimming pool has had his sentence adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A Dutch national who sexually assaulted a five-year old child has been given a two years prison sentence by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A former Christian Brother from the North Monastery in Cork was told today that he could thank the victim he sexually assaulted for the fact that he was not going to prison.