Courtney Murphy jumped on Alan McCarthy, knocked him to the ground, and repeatedly punched and banged his head off the ground, Limerick Circuit Court heard

Thomas Lynch (39), with an address at Woodhaven, Castletroy, had denied the charges before a jury at Limerick Circuit Court.

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

Limerick Circuit Court has imposed a media ban on identifying the man in order to protect the victim’s identity

Two men plunged to their deaths in the River Shannon after a safety mechanism on a crane failed to operate