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A priest who abused students at one of the most prestigious schools in the country in the 1970s has been publicly named by the Jesuit order at the behest of a former pupil of Belvedere College.

The garda investigation into child abuse at Terenure College has widened to include other former teachers at the fee-paying school as well as jailed paedophile rugby coach John McClean.

COVID TRAVEL More than 10,000 arrivals into Dublin Airport last week as Health Minister reveals travel volumes ‘significantly’ down James Ward Updated: 24 Feb 2021, 22:43 AROUND 10,500 people arrived in Ireland through Dublin Airport last week, the Health Minister has revealed. Speaking in the Dail, Stephen Donnelly said that between 1,000 and 3,500 people were still arriving in the country every day. 4 4 4 4 The minister said there were serious concerns that vaccines may not be as effecti...

IRELAND rugby star Brian O’Driscoll has said it was a disgrace that paedophile rugby coach John McClean was "protected” and moved to UCD, branding his former mentor “a total fraud”.

lucky to be alive Gardai launch major probe into gun attack on boy, 17, shot in neck and lower body as teen named and pictured Exclusive Updated: 26 Feb 2021, 8:59 GARDAI are probing a gun attack on a boy who was shot in the neck and lower body. 6 6 Officers from the Garda Technical Bureau collect evidence at the scene in Eugene Street, DublinCredit: PA:Press Association 6 6 A car, which gardai suspect was used as a getaway vehicle, was found burned out in the nearby Greenville AvenueCredit: P...

SIX more weeks in the can, at least. Not a whiff of freedom in the air. Weary arms, legs and head still in the stocks. 1 Micheal and Leo better come through on promises theyve madeCredit: Getty - Pool Trapped for a further dollop of gloom in the lockdown that has blanketed our lives like a thick, dark shroud for the last 12 months. It’d capture the mood of the nation better if the ­Government renamed its ­Living with Covid plan, the Living Like Zombies scheme. That’s what it is unless yo...

A group of sixth-year boys had gathered during a class break in 1979 at Terenure College, a fee-paying school run by the Carmelite order in south Dublin. From their vantage point in the common room

Updated: 21 Feb 2021, 15:34 IRELAND will have an "outdoor summer" this year as mixing between households outside will be needed "to stay sane", it has been claimed. Members of NPHET are set to meet with the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Covid-19 tomorrow to make their recommendations before a revised Living with Covid plan will be finalised on Tuesday. 2 2 Meeting outdoors is needed to stay sane, Prof Nolan saidCredit: Alamy Taoiseach Micheal Martin is then expected to make a formal announcement on...

Damien Hetherington. Photo: Collins Courts The abuse was outlined in evidence and in 23 victim impact statements read in court over two days in harrowing, unrelenting detail. How he touched them through their clothes, under the guise of punishing them, or of fitting them for costumes for school plays, bringing them to tears with threats, then touching them under the pretence of comforting them. His litany of shame included the 12-year-old he clamped between his legs, pressing him up against h...

John McClean sat in the interview room at Terenure Garda Station in Dublin, his solicitor by his side, rationalising why the things he was being accused of could never have happened. Implausible, he would suggest, or improbable.