A man who sexually assaulted a 17-year-old schoolgirl, who was working alone in a small country shop, and later followed and accosted her in his van as she walked home, has been placed on probation for a year.

A bread man yesterday pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a schoolgirl working in a shop last summer.

A teenager who alleges she and her friend were repeatedly sexually assaulted as children by a barman at a Co Mayo pub has told a Central Criminal Court jury that the alleged offences have ruined her life and left her suicidal.

A teenager who alleges she was repeatedly sexually abused from the age of eight by a barman in a Co Mayo pub has told a Central Criminal Court jury that she kept going back because she was getting alcohol and cigarettes.