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A former priest has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a boy and a girl between 30 and 40 years ago.

71-year-old Joseph Michael Steele, with an address at Kimmage Manor, Crumlin in Dublin, admitted five counts of indecent assault, and two of gross indecency, against the boy on dates between January 1967 and January 1971.

The former member of the Holy Ghost Order also pleaded guilty to three counts of indecently assaulting the girl on dates between August 1979 and July 1983.