The case hit the headlines after it emerged Cooney’s father, Michael Cooney, had tried to buy off the victim’s family with €50,000 to drop a criminal complaint
Paedophile Cian Cooney leaving prison on Friday
This is the disgraced former teacher who sexually exploited a 13-year-old schoolgirl walking free from prison on Friday morning after serving over three years of his five-year-sentence.
Cian Cooney (38), the former PE and geography teacher from Mostrim Road, Ballymahon, Co. Longford, was working in a well-known Dublin school when he engaged in multiple acts of defilement, sexual exploitation and grooming of his victim.
