A file is to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions after an investigation into paedophile activity in Galway city late last year resulted in two men being arrested.
The investigation was launched when it was revealed that boys as young as 13 were being taken to a house for sexual activities.
It followed allegations by a boy that he was being stalked on his way home from the city centre. He complained that when he got on the Knocknacarra bus in Eyre Square a man followed him in a car.
Gardai later located a house owned by a businessman from the east side of the city, who was alleged to have given the keys to young boys who frequented the house regularly with men. The boys had been given gifts of cigarettes and money. It emerged that the public lavatories in Eyre Square were being used for paedophile activities in the evenings and on Saturday afternoons. The Blackrock area of Salthill promenade was also named at the time by Supt Jim Sugrue, who headed the investigation, as a nogo area for young people during the hours of darkness.
It also emerged that some boys were being collected from secondary school in the evenings and taken to remote areas in the west of the city. After an appeal, a number of young people came forward and helped gardai with their inquiries.
The boys' ages ranged between 13 and 16 years. Confidentiality and expert counselling was assured for the young people, who may have been traumatised by their experiences.
After months of Garda investigation, a file on the two men arrested has been completed and is to be forwarded to the DPP.
The office of the DPP is expected to take some weeks to consider whether sufficient evidence has been accumulated to charge the two men before the courts.