Teacher made colleague's life 'a living nightmare' over 'fictitious allegations'

Letters send to gardaí and school principal alleged secondary school teacher 'was looking at inappropriate content, including pictures of naked women on his phone while teaching in the classroom'

Accused has pleaded guilty to sending a grossly offensive communication to another person with intent to cause harm when sending a letter to Henry Street Garda Station on March 30, 2022, and when sending a second letter on May 25, 2022, to the school. File picture

A secondary school teacher has told a court his life was made “a living nightmare” by “fictitious allegations” made up by a colleague, who sent two anonymous hand-written letters to gardaí and their school principal.

Detective Garda Joe Cusack of Henry Street Garda Station, Limerick, told the court on Thursday the letters purporting to be students from an all-girls school made reference to a named teacher, "alleging that he was looking at inappropriate content, including pictures of naked women on his phone while teaching in the classroom”.