A High Court judge has comprehensively rejected claims by jailed schoolteacher Enoch Burke that there were errors in an earlier judgment jailing him over his repeated trespass at Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath. Mr Burke remained online even after the judge had given his judgment but interrupted again when the court resumed to continue other business. The judge ordered that Mr Burke’s microphone should be muted and at that stage Mr Burke picked up his belongings and left the screen. In his earlier judgment, the judge said: “There is something deeply unsettling about Mr Burke’s presence at the school. Confront the principal, confront the bishop, confront the school, confront the security guards; confront the courts.”His verbal aggression was one of the reasons for his dismissal, he said.

Source: The Irish Times December 10, 2025 02:01 UTC