Enoch Burke brands 'Christmas gift' of prison release for holidays 'an insult to justice'

The judge said that given that the school will be closed during the forthcoming holidays the court would consider his release from Mountjoy during that period

Enoch Burke (pictured) has spent the last three-and-a-half months behind bars over his continued failure to obey a court order to stay away and not try to teach at Wilson's Hospital School in Co. Westmeath. File picture: Brian Lawless/PA

Jailed teacher Enoch Burke has told the High Court that he is not interested in a "Christmas gift" of being let out of prison for the festive period.

Mr Burke was offered an opportunity to make submissions before the High Court next week on why he should be released from custody during the holidays when the school at the centre of the row would be temporarily closed.