A sentencing judge has welcomed a paedophile and former Christian Brother’s “substantial change of heart” after he pleaded guilty for the first time to sex assaults on two pupils at the North Monastery secondary school in Cork.

Former Christian Brother Edward Bryan left a Cork courthouse in handcuffs yesterday after being found guilty of six more counts of indecently assaulting boys at a school in the 1980s.

The jury in the trial of a retired Christian Brother accused of indecently assaulting five teenagers at the North Monastery secondary school in Cork in the 1980s failed to reach a verdict yesterday after seven hours of deliberation.