Overview

• A three-person panel found five allegations of professional misconduct proven beyond reasonable doubt following a fitness-to-teach inquiry.
• Findings included locking a student teacher in the school in April 2017 and proposing a relationship linked to career benefits, including a Dublin hotel suggestion.
• The panel also concluded he touched the teacher under her jacket during a March 2017 school event and sent a late-night text afterward.
• The complainant, now a qualified teacher, reported the incidents in 2022 and was deemed credible and consistent; the principal denied wrongdoing and was judged not convincing.
• Citing lack of remorse and risk of repetition, the panel imposed removal from the Register with a minimum 15-year bar, noting his early retirement and claimed financial loss carried limited weight.