'His actions demolished all goodness': Former principal jailed for abuse

The court heard that when gardaí put the victims' allegations to Patrick Harte in 2015, the former teacher claimed they had “a vendetta against him”.

Patrick Harte, 78, was convicted of 11 counts of indecently assaulting seven pupils at the Sancta Maria Christian Brothers primary school on Synge Street, Dublin between September 1968 and September 1970. Picture: Collins Courts

A former school principal convicted of sexually abusing seven of his pupils has been jailed for three years.

After a trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court last March, Patrick Harte, 78, was convicted of 11 counts of indecently assaulting seven pupils at the Sancta Maria Christian Brothers primary school on Synge Street, Dublin between September 1968 and September 1970.