The 56-year-old Wexford man, who cannot be named to protect the victim's identity, has eight previous convictions from 2018 for sexual assaults committed in 1979 and 1980 and separately in 2007 and 2009

He had pleaded not guilty to 13 sexual assaults of the girls who were aged between eight and 11-years-old, but a unanimous jury found him guilty on all charges

Stephen Maher pleaded guilty to theft at an office at Point Square, East Wall Road, Dublin 1, on September 30th, 2021.