Ronan McCormack jailed for indecent assaults on boys

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Ronan McCormack was jailed for seven years for indecent assaults at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, reported on 10 November 2017. A jury had convicted him of 14 counts involving two boys aged between seven and 13.

The assaults occurred during the 1970s, with the charges relating to dates between June 1972 and March 1975 for one boy, and between August 1972 and December 1973 for the other. Judge Martin Nolan estimated that one victim had been abused between 60 and 100 times, and described the conduct as a pattern of abuse over a long period.