A judge said she will have to deal with “difficult and thorny” issues over a bid to set aside a landmark €4.7m award for the sexual abuse of two girls by a man who, it is claimed, may be suffering from dementia.

A man at the centre of a landmark €4.7m sex abuse award case has undergone a brain scan to help determine whether he is suffering from dementia which could lead to the award being set aside.

A retired company director at the centre of a landmark €4.7m sex abuse award may be suffering from dementia, the High Court heard yesterday.

They will live with the pain of what Joseph Carrick put them through for the rest of their lives, but yesterday Jacqueline O’Toole and Geraldine Nolan got justice.

Damages totalling €4.7m have been awarded to two Dublin women who were repeatedly raped by an older member of their choir in the early 1970s.

Athletics Ireland have announced their squad for this year’s World Youth Championships which take place in Ostrava, Czech Republic from the July 11-15.

The sanctity of the parish church in Monageer, Co Wexford, was shattered by a priest who molested 10 girls on the altar as he heard their confessions, the Ferns Inquiry revealed today.

WHILE all the other members of the Irish track and field team busied themselves packing and making their final preparations for this week’s European championships the “newest” sensation of the squad, Geraldine Hendricken, had other things on her mind.

ATHLETICS legend Terry McHugh hopes to set a world record by winning his 19th consecutive national Javelin title at Morton Stadium, Santry this weekend.