Ex-principal appeals sentence for indecent assaults

A former primary school principal, now aged 81, has moved to appeal his prison sentence for indecently assaulting 11 women while they were pupils of his in the school in west Clare.

Patrick Barry lost an appeal against conviction earlier this week, with the Court of Appeal “unable to hold” with him on any of his 12 grounds of appeal.

Barry, of Well Rd, Kilkee, Co Clare, had pleaded not guilty to 67 charges of indecently assaulting 11 women on dates between 1964 and 1985 while they attended Moyasta National School as pupils.