Teacher Enoch Burke to remain in jail after judge refused to grant order to release him

Mr Burke repeated his intention not to comply with the order preventing him attending school after judge invited him to consider purging his contempt

Irish schoolteacher Enoch Burke (left) leaving the High Court, Dublin, on Wednesday to return to Mountjoy Prison, after he refused an opportunity to purge his contempt of court. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Teacher Enoch Burke is to remain behind bars after a judge refused to grant him an order that would end his ongoing suspension from work.

His employer's decision to suspend him on full pay underpins other High Court orders preventing him from attending or teaching at Wilson's Hospital School in Co Westmeath, and one keeping him in Mountjoy Prison arising out of his refusal to comply with the injunction.