Man accused of making false sex assault claims against Walsh

An unemployed man gave two false statements to gardaí claiming he was sexually assaulted by 'X-Factor' judge Louis Walsh in a Dublin nightclub, a court heard today.

Father-of-two Leonard Watters (aged 24), who is from Navan, Co Meath, was arrested in his home-town in June, after allegedly making an unfounded claim to gardaí that the pop guru groped him in the toilets of the Krystle nightclub, after a Westlife concert in the O2, earlier this year.