Limerick teacher ‘staged mock trial’ in class

A school teacher made a young boy stand inside a makeshift ‘dock’ where he indecently assaulted him at the top of the classroom, a court has heard.

The evidence was heard at Limerick Circuit Court in the trial of a 73-year-old retired national school teacher who denies 78 counts of indecent assault against 13 boys.

The offences are alleged to have occurred over a three-year period at a national school in the Limerick area on unknown dates from September 1978 to June 1981.