The argument is that due to the ‘circumstances of cruelty’ involved in an attack he committed on one boy in a wooded area, the offences against this victim should have been the subject of a separate trial to that concerning four other complainants
Noel Sheehan (pictured) was found guilty on 16 counts of indecent assault by a jury in April 2024 and sentenced by Judge Helen Boyle at Anglesea Street Courthouse in Cork to four-and-a-half years with the final six months suspended. File picture: Cork Courts Limited