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ENOCH BURKE HAS been arrested and brought to Mountjoy prison.
It comes after gardaí seeking to execute a High Court order to imprison the former teacher were unable to locate him after calling to his home last week.
Judge Brian Cregan ordered Burke’s re-committal to prison for contempt of court on Tuesday last, following his repeated trespassing at Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath.
Burke has been jailed for contempt of court multiple times for breaching an injunction that requires him to stay away from Wilson’s, following his dismissal for gross misconduct after he interrupted a religious service and confronted the school’s principal.
The former teacher maintains he is being persecuted for his religious opposition to a requirement to address a transgender pupil by their preferred pronouns, a claim that was strongly rejected by Judge Cregan in his judgment on Tuesday.
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