LIFE is all about balance. Having recently attended a Mind Body Spirit exhibition — a plethora of alternative therapies, chakra realignments and general airy-fairy hippy-dippiness — it seems only right to check out some sex, decadence and fetish stuff.

A former garda presenter on RTE’s Crimeline programme has abandoned his bid to overturn a conviction of having solicited sex with a 12-year-old girl in a Limerick brothel.