A secondary school student who wanted her grandfather named for sexually abusing her so that he would be publicly shamed is to get £5,000 from him to pay for counselling.
Thomas Harrington (70), Beneavin Park, Glasnevin, was given a two-year suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Harrington pleaded guilty to sexually abusing the girl on dates from October 1993 to August 1998, when she was aged 8-12 years.