The man denied he ever intended meeting up with the “young girls” he was chatting to. A blurred image of a video posted online where a Co Wexford man was confronted by a so-called paedophile hunter group. Garda were called to the scene after a Wexford man was confronted by a group which aims to track down predators online.

Aged in his 30s, the man had been confronted by the so-called paedophile hunters and admitted to sending messages to at least two people, who he believed were 13-year-old girls and had described as “lovely" and “beautiful”. With the interaction being streamed live on the group’s Facebook page, it wasn’t long before concerned parents arrived at the scene in Co Waterford and aggressively confronted the man, warning him not to return to the area. A native of south Wexford, the man denied he ever intended meeting up with the “young girls” he was chatting to.

"I wasn’t gonna do anything anyway,” he told the group, before locals arrived at the scene. “I was just online. I wasn’t really gonna do anything.

” The person behind the camera pointed out that the Wexford man had arranged to meet the child, who was actually a decoy, in Dublin the day he was confronted in Waterford. At first, the Wexford man denied being in contact with any other children, but the person behind the sting revealed that she was aware of another child in Scotland who had received messages from him. "I’m not talking to her any more,” he said.

“I wouldn’t anyw.