A Dublin garda has pleaded guilty to one charge of downloading pornography from the Internet.
Mr Conor Brough of Wade's Avenue, Raheny, Co Dublin, downloaded 23 pornographic images from the Internet on July 9th last year.
The garda (43) accepted the images were pornographic but denied the images were of child pornography.
Sentencing has been adjourned to April 2004 for assessment and probation reports.