A convicted paedophile has been jailed for life by Mr Justice Paul Carney for raping two young boys in a Dublin city centre location between 2004 and 2006.
Philip Sullivan (43) a native of Kildare town and with an address at Botanic Road, Glasnevin, Dublin, had already served two previous separate sentences for similar offences over a decade ago.
Sullivan pleaded guilty to 11 counts including anal rape, attempted anal rape and sexual assault on two young males on dates from April 2004 to July 2006.
Garda Elaine O'Keefe told prosecuting counsel, Sinéad McGrath, that as well as raping and abusing these victims individually, Sullivan had also made them masturbate one another.
Garda O'Keefe said Sullivan was previously jailed for two concurrent terms of four years each at Naas Circuit Criminal Court on November 21st, 1995 and for a five-year term at the Central Criminal Court on October 6th, 1997 - all for male sex assaults.
Mr Justice Carney directed that Sullivan be registered as a sex offender and said he had destroyed incredibly young lives as well as abusing the trust that had been placed in him.
"Under normal circumstances, these latest offences would have warranted a 12-year sentence reduced to 10 years on mitigation, but his previous convictions have escalated this case into a whole different category," Mr Justice Carney said.
He said that Sullivan's actions had shown he did not respond to treatment programmes and counselling.
He imposed concurrent life sentences on each rape charge and five years on the sexual assault counts.
The judge refused an application by defence counsel, Paul Burns SC, for leave to appeal the sentence.