{"id":435474,"date":"2026-05-06T17:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/435474\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:34:15","slug":"man-sexually-abused-as-a-boy-in-1980s-refuses-to-accept-e20000-brought-to-court-by-shopkeeper-as-token-of-remorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/435474\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sexually abused as a boy in 1980s refuses to accept \u20ac20,000 brought to court by shopkeeper as token of remorse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">An accountant for the defendant\u2019s family gave character evidence, saying \u201cI have always found Noel Jordan to be honest and totally tax compliant\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Noel Jordan (59) of Jordan\u2019s Mace, Main Street, Lisdoonvarna, at Ennis courthouse. Photo: Liam Burke\/Press 22\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ordan Ennis Court 1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Noel Jordan (59) of Jordan\u2019s Mace, Main Street, Lisdoonvarna, at Ennis courthouse. Photo: Liam Burke\/Press 22<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A judge has remandeda Lisdoonvarna retailer in custody pending sentence for the sexual abuse of a primary school boy in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">At Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Francis Comerford ordered that Noel Jordan (59) of Jordan\u2019s Mace, Main Street, Lisdoonvarna, be remanded in custody arising from \u201csustained\u201d indecent assaults on Se\u00e1n Collins on dates over a six-year period between 1980 and 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An accountant for the defendant\u2019s family gave character evidence, saying \u201cI have always found Noel Jordan to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43,60422],"class_list":["post-435474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news","tag-news-in-90-seconds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}