A prominent human rights activist in Northern Ireland was found guilty on 31 charges of child sex abuse at the Circuit Court in Monaghan yesterday.
Vincent McKenna, of Ormeau Road, Belfast, was convicted of the abuse on his daughter between November 1985 and December 1993.
McKenna is a former spokesman for the Belfast group Families Against Intimidation and Terror (FAIT).
Since the FAIT organisation was wound up last year McKenna has run his own Northern Ireland Human Rights Bureau.
At the request of his daughter, Sorcha (18), a first-year university law student, the ban on publication of McKenna's name was lifted by Judge Matthew Deery in the Circuit Court.
The jury of seven men and five women found McKenna guilty of 19 charges of indecent assault and a further 12 charges of sexual assault.
The judge directed that another two charges be dropped since McKenna was absent from the family home and living in England for part of the period.
The court heard of repeated incidents of abuse, which ranged from inappropriate fondling, masturbation, oral sex, vaginal sex and anal sex on his daughter, who was aged between four and 11 at the time.
McKenna will be sentenced when the Circuit Court reconvenes in Castleblayney on Tuesday.