Jailed teacher Enoch Burke has been refused an application at the Supreme Court to appeal a key judgment in his long-running case. Burke, who has spent more than 600 days in jail and is currently in Castlerea Prison, applied to the highest court late last year referencing two separate rulings by the Court of Appeal. His latest incarceration, ordered in January, arises from his repeated breach of the court orders to stay away from the school. In his application to the Supreme Court, lodged in December 2025, Burke said that in a Court of Appeal judgment in 2023 Judge John Edwards ruled there was no evidence he had been suspended because of his fundamentalist Christian views. In his submission to the Supreme Court, he sought an insertion into Faherty’s judgment of an “explicit acknowledgment” that certain aspects of Edward’s decision were “erroneous”.

Source: The Irish Times April 10, 2026 13:52 UTC