'Little people grow up to be bigger and stronger': jail for man who abused boy in 1980s

A man has been jailed for one year at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court following his guilty plea to indecently assaulting a child in Dublin in the 1980s. Thomas Deegan, aged 55 and with an address in Finglas, Dublin, committed the offence against an eight-year-old boy between May 1982 and October 1985. The victim, now 45, made a formal complaint to gardaí in 2015, leading to Deegan's arrest and charging in 2017. Deegan…