Victim of sex abuse who abused boys given four years with one suspended

A former underage soccer team coach who sexually abused four boys during the 1990s has received a four-year sentence with one suspended at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

The victims of Des Foley (aged 49), who was himself abused at an industrial school, have rejected a €30,000 compensation offer from an award paid out to him as a victim of sexual abuse at a residential insitution.