{"id":139627,"date":"2025-11-14T15:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139627\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:11:11","slug":"dublin-teacher-33-caught-in-vigilante-sting-had-sexualised-online-conversations-with-teen-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139627\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin teacher (33) caught in vigilante sting had sexualised online conversations with teen girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Niall Ganley, from The Priory, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin pictured at the Criminal Courts of Justice (CCJ). Photo: IrishPhotoDesk.ie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/fb973363-171c-4357-aea3-9489406b3c0e.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Niall Ganley, from The Priory, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin pictured at the Criminal Courts of Justice (CCJ). Photo: IrishPhotoDesk.ie<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A school teacher who had highly sexualised conversations online with teenage girls has been jailed for two and a half years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Dublin man Niall Ganley (33) was caught as a result of a sting operation by a UK based vigilante group set up to stop sexual grooming of children online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Niall Ganley, from The Priory, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin pictured at the Criminal Courts of Justice (CCJ). Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-139627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}