A priest has been jailed for seven years for eight counts of historical indecent assault against four boys.

Canon Patrick McEntee, 71, from Esker Road in Dromore, County Tyrone, was described by the judge as a “predatory paedophile” who abused children in his care.

The assaults dated back to the late 1970s through to the late 1980s and involved boys aged between 11 and 17.

McEntee, who was a teacher at St Michael’s College in Enniskillen, took the boys into his private quarters where some of them were made to sit on his knee or touched inappropriately.