‘He was the vicious wolf lying in wait for me’

A victim of paedophile school principal Patrick Barry yesterday described the 80-year-old abuser as a "vicious wolf lying in wait" to abuse the children that came to his school.

‘He was the vicious wolf lying in wait for me’

At Ennis Circuit Court yesterday, the now middle- aged woman described the terror of having to go to Moyasta NS as a little girl.

In a victim impact statement, she told the court: “I was a little girl who came from a loving home where I was cherished by my parents and he was the vicious wolf lying in wait for me every day to take complete advantage of my innocence.

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