'It hits you in the heart': Teacher speaks out after being cyberbullied by students in his school 

Ciaran Kavanagh speaking at the ASTI conference in Wexford.

Ciaran Kavanagh speaking at the ASTI conference in Wexford.

A Dublin teacher has spoken of the trauma he experienced having been cyberbullied by students in his school, saying the experience was something that “hits you in the heart”.

Ciaran Kavanagh, a teacher in north Dublin, spoke of how a student used Mr Kavanagh’s image from his LinkedIn profile to create an anonymous TikTok account “to make what they would call a humorous video”.

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