John McClean faces 35 charges of assaulting boys at Terenure College between 1973 and 1989 COLLINS COURTSA former rugby coach at Terenure College has been sent forward for trial accused of indecently assaulting nine pupils over a 17-year period. John McClean, 73, of Casimir Avenue, Harold’s Cross, Dublin was served with a book of evidence at Dublin district court yesterday. He faces 35 charges of indecently assaulting nine males at Terenure College between 1973 and 1989. The men would have been teenagers at the time of the incidents. Mr McClean was an English teacher and rugby coach at the secondary school in south Dublin until he left in the 1990s to set up the celebrated rugby academy at University College Dublin, where he was credited with laying the groundwork for the careers of many…

Source: The Times January 10, 2019 00:00 UTC