Paedophile rugby coach sentenced to four more years in prison

Convicted paedophile rugby coach John McClean has been sentenced to an additional four years in prison for offences committed while he was a teacher and sports instructor at Terenure College in Dublin Ireland.

Paedophile Rugby coach John McClean sentenced to four more years in prison

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McLean was already serving an eight-year sentence for abusing 23 Terenure College pupils during the 1990s.

That sentence was handed down in 2021.

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Meanwhile McLean has now copped to a further 22 charges, an admission that has drawn an apology from the Carmelite Order, who run the school.

According to the Irish Mirror, the order admitted that McClean was: “a serial abuser who wreaked havoc on the lives of the students that he abused in Terenure College.

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“It was a grave failure that he was not stopped, and for this, we are truly sorry.

“Our public apologies seem paltry in the wake of the harrowing accounts of abuse and its devastating consequences that former students have given in their statements to Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.”

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“Once again, we are humbled by the courage shown by victims and survivors in their pursuit of justice.”

Sickening acts

The court noted the abuse had taken place over a protracted period of time.

In passing sentence Judge Martin Nolan remarked: “This court has to deal with the abuse of boys under the accused’s care over a protracted period of time.

“There are 22 complainants in the case, with some of them having been abused on a single occasion and others were abused three, four, six, seven and up to eight times.

“He was determined and persistent and abused over a long period of time,” Judge Nolan added.

McClean’s sentence will mean that he will be at least 84-years-old before he will have any chance of walking free.

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