A High Court judge has ordered teacher Enoch Burke be returned to prison for repeatedly trespassing at a school in Co Westmeath. Mr Burke was arrested this morning ahead of a scheduled appearance at the High Court in Dublin. He will now return to prison after breaching an Irish court order instructing him not to trespass at Wilson’s Hospital School, Co Westmeath. In court last Friday, Rosemary Mallon BL, for the school, said Mr Burke was not in court for that afternoon's application because less than an hour earlier, he had been at the school. "None of that is what a principal should be doing and it is my submission and with great regret that yet again that I ask the Mr Burke be committed," she said.

Source: Irish Examiner January 19, 2026 13:44 UTC