A sporting venue that has deep symbolic importance for the people of Ireland will be visited by the Queen during her tour of the country.

Serial sex offender James Lombard confessed today to sexually assaulting another seven boys and two girls as it emerged a consultation with a prison psychiatrist broke down because the accused was too upset to speak.

An Englishman caught at his home in Cork with thousands of pornographic images of children was given a two-year suspended jail sentence today after it was claimed that he had undergone psychiatric counselling and was no longer a risk to others in the community.