The effects of Louise O’Keeffe’s ECHR case

Cork woman Louise O’Keeffe was abused by school principal Leo Hickey while she was an eight-year-old pupil at Dunderrow NS, in Kinsale, in 1973.

She went as far as the Supreme Court to seek justice for the sexual abuse she endured in the primary school.

Ms O’Keeffe argued that the State was liable, as the Department of Education had failed to put in place appropriate protection measures.