Ex-Terenure College rugby coach John McClean appeals against consecutive sentences for sexually abusing pupils

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The State has urged the Court of Appeal to consider whether allowing former Terenure College rugby coach John McClean to serve no additional jail time for abusing 22 additional victims who came forward after the serial offender was first jailed in 2021 would have been “fair and just”.

McClean (79), who was convicted of sexually abusing a total of 45 pupils – the highest number of complainants in a case before the Irish courts – over a period of more than 20 years has complained that the decision to impose consecutive sentences on him totalling 12 years was too severe.