Portlaoise Gardaí arrest man after report of indecent exposure on train

A man was arrested on a train in Portlaoise after gardaí received reports of a male masturbating in front of a number of women at the weekend.

The incident is alleged to have occurred on the train south of Thurles on Friday. Gardaí were alerted and waiting at Portlaoise Train Station where a man was later arrested and detained.

The man, who is in his 30s and a foreign national, was detained by Gardaí in Laois and held overnight at Abbeyleix Garda Station.

He was brought before a special sitting of Portlaoise District Court on Saturday and remanded in custody to appear in court again on Thursday.