A security company worker who sexually assaulted two schoolboys aged 11 and 12 years after a New Year's Eve disco at Leopardstown Racecourse has been given a suspended sentence by Judge Elizabeth Dunne.
Patrick Carroll (47), of Main Street, Kilcullen, Co Kildare, dragged the victims into his security van and touched them in an abusive way on January 1st last year.
Judge Dunne at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court imposed a 2 1/2-year sentence but suspended it and placed Carroll, a father of five, under a bond for three years.