Online ID theft and sexual posts ‘ruin’ ex’s life

Vile explicit messages, purporting to be from a woman who was a childcare worker, were posted online by a man she had gone out with briefly seven years before.

The messages, suggesting the woman was available for sex, were all written in the first person and were all accompanied by the woman’s full name and postal address.

The woman eventually discovered that they had been posted by Paul Monaghan, aged 34, from Cartron, Kilrooskey, Co Roscommon. She had gone out with him in 2004.