Sentencing adjourned for RTÉ journalist from Kerry for sexually assaulting sleeping woman

The woman said the time between reporting the assault and the trial was "completely unacceptable" and forced victims of sexual violence to be stuck in a state of trauma.

The court heard that Mícheál Ó Leidhin (pictured) has been suspended from his position in RTÉ and will have difficulties ever working in his chosen field again. Picture: RTE.ie

The sentencing of a Kerry journalist for sexually assaulting a woman while she was sleeping in his bed has been adjourned.

Mícheál Ó Leidhin (38) of Sunnyside, Malahide Road, Artane had been employed by RTÉ and was convicted last April of sexual assault at his former home in south Dublin in the early hours of the morning of May 13, 2018.