A Dublin father has been found guilty at the Central Criminal Court of raping his two daughters and sexually abusing his son.
The jury have convicted him of 80 sexual offences against the three victims. They returned two verdicts of not guilty of sexual assault against one of daughters and still have to decide on a further 14 counts.
He originally faced 113 charges but Mr Justice George Birmingham ordered not guilty verdicts on 17 of the counts following legal arguement.
The 73-year-old accused man had pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting and raping two daughters between the ages of five and eleven and sexually assaulting his son from the age of three to six at various locations from 1997 to 2002.
The jury of eight men and four women reached their unanimous decisions on the 82 counts after eleven hours of deliberation and a seven week trial. They will return tomorrow for a third day of deliberations on the remaining counts.