A former Christian brother at Cork’s North Mon who had been convicted for indecently assaulting several schoolboys — despite his strenuous denials — pleaded guilty for the first time to two more offences yesterday.

A former Christian Brother whose sexual abuse of three boys left them with deep, emotional scars showed not one shred of remorse for his victims, a judge said as he jailed him for five years.

Former Christian Brother Edward Bryan left a Cork courthouse in handcuffs yesterday after being found guilty of six more counts of indecently assaulting boys at a school in the 1980s.

The lawyer for a former Christian Brother on trial for indecently assaulting four schoolboys claimed the accused was being used as a scapegoat for the complainants’ problems.

A former Christian Brother on trial for indecently assaulting four boys at the North Monastery secondary school in Cork in the 1980’s told investigating gardaí that he took an overdose in 2010, it emerged yesterday.

The jury in the trial of a retired Christian Brother accused of indecently assaulting five teenagers at the North Monastery secondary school in Cork in the 1980s failed to reach a verdict yesterday after seven hours of deliberation.