Teacher challenges Garda vetting bureau over plan to disclose sexual impropriety allegations

Teacher at South Dublin school has brought High Court challenge over the Garda vetting bureau's decision to disclose details about allegations of sexual impropriety to the Teaching Council

Secondary school teacher was the subject of allegations, made to the gardaí in 2013, that more than 20 years ago he had massaged the backs of two female children, who were not his students, in an inappropriate and sexual way.

A teacher at a South Dublin school has brought a High Court challenge over the Garda vetting bureau's decision to disclose details about allegations of sexual impropriety to the Teaching Council.

The male teacher, who denies any wrongdoing, claims the decision is flawed and should be set aside because the vetting bureau arrived at its finding using documents that the teacher and his lawyers were not given sight of.