'We got him into jail, and those lads have kept him there': Bill Kenneally whistle blower happy to be out of shadows

Pictured on Tramore Beach, Tramore, Co. Waterford is Jason Clancy. Photograph: Patrick Browne

The Waterford man who took the first step towards halting years of abuse perpetrated by notorious paedophile Bill Kenneally says he is “very pleased” with the four and half year sentence handed down to the Waterford offender in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court this week.

Jason Clancy triggered Kenneally’s eventual downfall when, in December 2012, he and a fellow victim reported the abuse inflicted on them as teenagers by the former basketball coach over a four-year period in the 1980s.