Update 10.37am: Kieran Creaven has pleaded guilty to charges of attempted grooming and trying to incite a child to engage in sexual activity, according to reports.
The RTÉ sports producer has admitted sex offences after he was confronted by so-called paedophile hunters when he travelled to the UK to meet what he thought was a 13-year-old girl.
At Leeds Crown Court today, Kieran Creaven, 55, admitted attempting to meet a child following grooming for a sexual purpose and of attempting to cause or incite a child to engage in sexual activity, namely kissing and cuddling.
Creaven flew from Ireland to Leeds to meet up at The Queens Hotel with the "girl", who was in fact a fake online identity created by a group of so-called paedophile hunters.
The offences were said to have taken place from July 1 - when the defendant first contacted the "girl" online - to November 18 when he arrived at the hotel in the city.
He was released on bail to be sentenced on February 12.
At a hearing in November, prosecutor Jill Seddon told Leeds Magistrates' Court that Creaven, of Dublin, said in one message that he "felt horny" and that he also sent a photograph of an erect penis.
The 54-year-old with an address in Dublin has been suspended from duty at RTÉ pending the outcome of the case.
Earlier: RTÉ producer due in court
An RTÉ sports producer is due in court in the UK today on charges of grooming and trying to incite a child to engage in sexual activity.
54-year-old Kieran Creaven with an address in Dublin was arrested in Leeds last month after he was confronted by a vigilante group who claim they had been posing as a child online.
Mr Creaven was released on bail and allowed to return to Ireland.
He is due before Leeds Crown Court later.
RTÉ has suspended him from duty pending the outcome of the case.
He has not indicated how he intends to plead.
