2023-02-24
'No one took any steps to stop the abuse,' judge notes as Terenure College coach is further jailed
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Terenure College rugby coach John McClean was a serial child abuser who used his position of trust as a teacher "to gratify his own needs", a judge said today as he jailed him for the abuse of 22 boys at the private school over a 20-year period. "It seems from the evidence that I have heard that no one took any steps to stop the abuse," Judge Martin Nolan also noted. McClean (78) of Casimir Avenue, Harold's Cross, Dublin, is already serving an eight-year sentence for abusing 23 Terenure College pupils that was handed down in 2021.