A paedophile who went all over Cork city to carry out sex attacks on children as young as four years of age in the toilets of fast food outlets, public swimming pools and playing fields, was jailed for five years today.

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.

SERIAL sex offender James Lombard was caught yesterday in Carrigaline, Co Cork, where he was walking down the street in the mid-afternoon.

A serial sex offender captured today three weeks after he disappeared on the final day of his trail at Cork Circuit Court has been remanded in custody to appear at Youghal Circuit Court.

Detectives today arrested a convicted child sex offender who had been on the run for three weeks.

A PAEDOPHILE on the run from gardaí duped people in East Cork into giving him free meals after he told them he was homeless because his wife has thrown him out.

Gardaí yesterday named fugitive paedophile James Lombard. Seán O'Riordan looks back at his trial.

GARDAÍ yesterday appealed to a paedophile who assaulted seven boys to turn himself in after a judge lifted a court order prohibiting his identification.

Detectives were today hunting a convicted child sex offender believed to be at large in Ireland.