South Dublin school needs to explain why John McClean allowed abuse schoolboys for decades, says survivor
“It’s just a pity it wasn’t done 25 years ago, being held accountable,” Mr Hetherington said. “He’s bent over now, he’s an old man now. He is remorseful I’ll give him that, or maybe it’s just shame. I mean, that’s not much good to all these guys; they were lives turned upside down, you know? He can’t look at the men, the lives that he practically destroyed.
One of those men told The Irish Times McClean’s coaching position in Terenure College’s rugby squad gave him great power and made him very hard to challenge at the time he was abusing so many pupils. The other victim said had somebody acted on the information about McClean in circulation at the time, he would have been removed as a teacher and rugby coach and many boys, now men, could have been saved.
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