Jim Harmon of Pinewood in Shannon, Co Clare, had received a 16-month prison sentence for each of the boys he abused.

A judge has jailed an 80-year old former Limerick Scout Leader to six years and eight months in prison for molesting five young boys, all scouts, “who still believed in Santa” in the 1970s and early 1980s

Judge Francis Comerford lifted previously imposed reporting restrictions on the naming of Jim Harmon