High Court orders man to pay 'admirable' abuse survivor €350k damages

The High Court has ordered a man in his 70s to pay his former neighbour €350,000 for sexually abusing her when she was a child.

Sean Connolly of Kilkea, Castledermot, in Co Kildare was jailed for two years at Naas Circuit Court in 2011 having pleaded guilty to six sample charges of sexual assault in the late 1970s and early 1980s.