A normal middle-class teenager’s life collapsed around him when a priest sexually assaulted him in the sick bay of a boarding school in 1979 and returned moments afterwards with a Disprin and a glass of water.

A jury of 10 men and two women reached a unanimous guilty verdict against a 70-year-old priest for a sex assault on a schoolboy in the sick bay of a boarding school in 1979.

A boarding school student in 1979 described in court yesterday how he was indecently assaulted in the sick bay by a priest who was also dean of discipline.

The case against a priest accused of indecently assaulting a student in a school toilet on an unknown date in the mid-1980s has been dismissed after a trial at Cork District Court.

The case against a priest accused of indecently assaulting a student in a school toilet on an unknown date in the mid-1980s was put back for more evidence on the complaint to be supplied to the defence.

Gardaí arrested an 80-year-old man yesterday and charged him with indecently assaulting 14 children while serving as a Missionaries of Sacred Heart priest and he declared: “I am totally innocent of those charges.”

UP TO 24 past pupils at a Co Cork boarding school have contacted gardaí with allegations of abuse.

THE HSE and the Garda Síochána have launched an inquiry into allegations of sexual and physical abuse at a Cork school while it was run by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.

FEARS were growing among victims yesterday that the former principal of a Co Cork boarding school could leave the country permanently after a deluge of victims spoke out about his alleged reign of terror.

FORMER pupils of a Cork boarding school will meet in Dublin this month with the Fianna Fáil senator who used Seanad privilege to uncloak their former principal as an alleged child abuser who flouted his restricted ministry.