It could be several days before information on the three Irishmen who tried to pay a young girl to perform sex acts online is handed to gardaí, it emerged yesterday.

Three Irishmen are among 1,000 adults identified in an international online sex crimes investigation involving young children.

EACH year thousands of children who arrive in EU countries as immigrants disappear despite being placed in state care, according to a study carried out by a Swiss child rights body.