Former principal appeals indecent assault conviction

An 80-year-old former principal has appealed his conviction for indecently assaulting 11 women while they were pupils of his in Moyasta National School, west Clare, over three decades.

Patrick Barry, of Well Rd, Kilkee, Co Clare,

was found guilty by a jury of 59 counts of indecent assault and not guilty of the remaining eight counts by direction of Judge Gerald Keyes.