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The court heard the alleged assaults took place in various locations including at lay-bys, the beach, in the woods and at the accused man’s home.Mr Greene told the jury that while there were specific allegations against the man, there were also sample counts on the indictment which covered an alleged “course of conduct” during the relevant period.
The complainant told the court that the accused was a friend of his father’s and a coach at a sports club in Waterford. He said he tried out for the team when aged around 13 and the accused became his coach. The complainant said that at first he did not want to do it. “But he would say: ‘You’re not the only one’,” he told the court. “He would say: ‘You’re not special’. So you did it. You got your money and you had a few beers.”The man told the court that this happened regularly, before it progressed to kissing the accused and then to the man exposing his penis and the complainant masturbating him. He said that when he was around 15 it progressed to oral sex.