A round-up of today's other stories in brief.
Father admits indecent acts with son
A Co Louth man who committed acts "of gross indecency" with his teenage son and another youth has been remanded in custody for sentence by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.
The man (61) pleaded guilty to 13 counts of indulging in acts of gross indecency with his son in Louth and three counts of gross indecency with another youth in Galway and Monaghan.
He also admitted two counts of sexually assaulting the second youth in Louth. Both victims were under 15 years when he committed the offences between July and September 1999.
Mr Justice Carney directed the preparation of a victim impact report.
Man robbed as he paid for prostitute
A drug addict who robbed a man, who was in the process of acquiring the services of a prostitute, has had his sentence adjourned at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Martin Ward (26), Maple House, North Circular Road, pleaded guilty to robbery of a man at an apartment at New Cabra Road in December 2004. Ward burst into the flat holding a big stick and told the man to empty his pockets. He handed over all his cash, a mobile phone and ATM cards.
Judge Michael White described the crime as "nasty" and in a "different league" from his previous convictions. He remanded him in custody to a sentence date next year.
Owner of haulage firm fined
A Garda crackdown in Co Monaghan on overweight lorries with consignments of stone, on their way to the bypass under construction at Castleblayney, led to a number of charges at Castleblayney District Court yesterday against the owner of a Co Louth haulage firm.
Paul McKenna, trading as McKenna Haulage, was yesterday fined €50 in respect of each of two summonses for having in excess of the maximum load permitted on lorries on September 29th.
Mr McKenna was ordered by Judge Flann Brennan to pay €3,000 compensation to Monaghan County Council is respect of one of the offences and €1,600 in respect of the other.
Garda Patrick Counihan said that in one case, there was an excess weight of 4,700kg above the permitted level for a such a load.
Defence lawyer Sinéad O'Brien said the owner of the lorries, who pleaded guilty, was unaware that such excessive loads were being carried.