A priest who indecently assaulted a 12-year-old boy at a school in Co Cork in the 1980s has been jailed for a year.

A jury took less than two hours to reach a unanimous guilty verdict in the case of a priest sexually assaulting a schoolboy in Cork approximately 36 years ago.

A 71-year-old priest who continued to say Mass within his religious community after serving three years for sexually abusing schoolboys was sentenced to another three years yesterday for more abuse that dates back more than 30 years.

Gardaí arrested an 80-year-old man yesterday and charged him with indecently assaulting 14 children while serving as a Missionaries of Sacred Heart priest and he declared: “I am totally innocent of those charges.”