The former Lord Mayor of Cork John Murray has been sentenced to 12 months in jail for the sexual assault of a teenage girl.

A former Lord Mayor of Cork has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage girl in the 1990s.

The jury in the sex assault trial of Cork's former Lord Mayor, has found John Murray guilty of one charge.

The jury in the sex assault trial of Cork's former Lord Mayor, John Murray, has been sent home for the night.