The trial of a primary school teacher, accused of 237 counts of indecent assault against young boys between 1966 and 1984, has opened in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Patrick Curran, who is a teacher at St John's National School, Temple Hill in Sligo, denies the charges.
The trial, before a jury of ten men and two women, is due to last two weeks.
It took one hour to put all the charges to the accused in court this afternoon.
