charges involving another girl were dropped. Judge Karen O'Connor sentenced Humphries to years in jail on 24 October 2017. When sentencing, she took into account Humphries's guilty plea and the two character references for the defence from the journalist David Walsh and the hurler Donal Óg Cusack. The chief executive of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre was surprised and disappointed about the sentence's leniency. Prison Humphries began serving his sentence at the Midlands Prison in Portlaoise. Humphries was offered therapy but declined, having earlier claimed he was remorseful for his crimes while in court. In prison, he shared a landing with Graham Dwyer, who murdered Elaine O'Hara, and shared his cell with John Tighe, who killed his baby son. While serving his sentence he called a prison officer an "uneducated turnkey". The officer was reported by the Irish Independent at the time to have responded: "I would rather be an uneducated turnkey than an educated paedophile". He studied Spanish while in jail, believed to be an indicator of his intentions upon completion of his sentence; Humphries spent time in Spain before his trial. Humphries was released from prison on 16 August 2019, having served 19 months. Bibliography Green Fields: Gaelic Sport in Ireland (Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated, , 1996) Laptop Dancing and the Nanny Goat Mambo: A Sportswriter's Year (Pocket Books/Town House, , 2003) Booked! (V. Carefully) Selected Writings (Town House, , 2004) Dublin V Kerry (Penguin Ireland, , 2006) References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Irish columnists Irish expatriates in Spain Irish people convicted of child sexual abuse Irish sports journalists Irish sportswriters Journalists from London Prisoners and detainees of the Republic of Ireland The Irish Times people 21st-century criminals