Former RTÉ producer Kieran Creaven has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for child sex offences.
The 55-year-old from Dublin pleaded guilty to two offences at Leeds Crown Court last December.
He was confronted by a paedophile hunting vigilante group in England in November of last year after grooming a fictitious 13-year-old girl.
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He admitted attempting to meet a child following grooming for a sexual purpose, and attempting to cause a child to engage in kissing and cuddling.
He was given bail in November and instructed to have no unsupervised access to children.