Teacher Enoch Burke avoids immediate arrest for allegedly breaching injunction

The court was told that while the Gardaí had been contacted about the matter, the order had not yet been perfected

The court heard that Mr Burke was currently "sitting in an empty classroom" in the Co. Westmeath-based school. File picture: Larry Cummins

A teacher accused of ignoring an injunction to stay away from the school in which he is employed has avoided being arrested today.

It comes after a judge ordered that he be arrested by gardaí and brought before the High Court to answer his alleged failure to comply with a temporary injunction preventing him from attending or teaching at the secondary school where he is employed.