Corkman paid young girls to pose for sexually explicit images and videos on Snapchat

A total of 93 images and 90 video clips were found in Garda search, court told

Adam Palmer of Ballyhooleen, Ballinhassig, Co Cork, faces sentencing at Cork Circuit Criminal Court for possession of child pornography and using computer information technology for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

A 27-year-old man from Ballinhassig paid girls aged from 14 to 16 to pose for child pornographic videos and images which they then sent to him by Snapchat from the UK.

And he got such material from a 12-year-old girl without making a payment to her.