‘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.

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.