Ex-GAA club official given 16-year jail term for ‘campaign of sexual offending’

McKenna had been a club treasurer at Crossmaglen Rangers GAA in Co Armagh, as well as a postman and a director of the local credit union

Thomas McKenna, 62, was jailed at Belfast Laganside Courthouse (PA)

A former Gaelic Athletics Association (GAA) club official has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for what a judge called “a campaign of sexual offending” carried out against young males for almost 30 years.

Thomas McKenna, 62, with an address at Maghaberry Prison, pleaded guilty to 162 sexual abuse offences that took place between 1989 and 2018, affecting 23 victims.