A Swords man has appeared in Swords District Court on 87 charges of abusing young girls. He faces 11 charges of rape, three of buggery and 22 of indecent assault on one girl between 1977 and 1983. He also faces 50 charges of indecently assaulting another girl at his home between 1977 and 1983, and one charge of sexually assaulting a third girl in 1995.