WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Niall Ganley initiated contact with a woman from a vigilante group who posed as a child and sent her a video of himself masturbating View 2 Images The Criminal Courts of Justice, Dublin.

A school teacher who engaged in highly sexualised conversations online with teenage girls has been sentenced to two and a half years behind bars. Dublin man Niall Ganley (33) was snared following a sting operation conducted by a UK-based vigilante group established to combat the sexual grooming of children online. ‌

Garda Lisa Finn informed Jennifer Jackson BL, prosecuting, that in July 2023 a woman from this organisation met with UK police to report sexualised conversations between an Irish male and a fake profile for a child created on teen social media platform

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