A Gaelic football coach has been sentenced to seven years and 10 months and placed on the list of sex offenders for a series of sex assaults on schoolboys.

The trial of a man accused of the "systematic sexual abuse" of his son has reached its closing stages.

A Central Criminal Court judge has criticised the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for delaying the progress of a trial by failing to anticipate an issue that arose with a witness in the case.