Man jailed for sexually abusing boys at soccer club

A Wicklow man described as having "homosexual paedophilic tendencies" has been jailed for three years for sexually abusing young boys while managing a soccer club.

Padraig Cullen (aged 47), an unmarried labourer, of Mellows Avenue, Arklow was extradited from England last year. He pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to three charges relating to one victim and had two other counts relating to two other boys taken into consideration.