Sharkey is charged with a number of offences from sexual to indecent assault against at least a dozen young boys on various occasions in the 1970s and 1980s.

A fitness-to-teach inquiry concluded that the teacher had contravened the Code of Professional Conduct for Teachers

The teacher claims the evidence was unlawfully garnered from a Snapchat social media account without consent

He said that seven teachers around his age plan to go overseas after Christmas

The High Court heard the teacher forged the signatures of two other teachers on a form to prove he had completed required teaching practice

The action has been brought by Dr Toiréasa Ni Fhearaiosa

John Murphy (43) was sentenced to one year in prison after he pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of the 16-year-old, as well as the possession of child abuse imagery

Gerry O’Brien (59) made no reaction when the jury returned the guilty verdicts in the Central Criminal Court

A teacher accused of sexually assaulting six young men has told his trial that he made a “major mistake” to have a student sleep in bed beside him

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard the abuse occurred while Jacintha McSherry O'Connor (now 63) worked as a student teacher at a Dublin secondary school

The 59-year-old accused, who can't be named for legal reasons, has pleaded not guilty at the Central Criminal Court to one count of attempted anal rape and eight counts of sexual assault

The messages, sent by the male teacher to the girls aged 13 and 14, included describing one girl 'as a little ride'

In Waterford Circuit Court, Judge Eugene O’Kelly sentenced Lee Hutchinson (40) to serve six years, with the last year suspended

A Dublin teacher has said that teaching is ‘not as good a profession as it used to be’.