Enoch Burke to stay in prison over Christmas after refusing to purge contempt 

Mr Burke refused to give an undertaking to comply with court order to stay away from Wilson's Hospital School

Enoch Burke was jailed for the second time last September after the school's board asked the court for orders to jail the teacher over his deliberate failure to comply with a permanent injunction restraining him from attending at the school. File picture: PA

Enoch Burke looks set to remain in prison for Christmas after he refused in the High Court to give an undertaking to comply with a court order to stay away from the secondary school where he used to work.

The teacher, who has already spent 200 days in jail, was asked in the High Court on several occasions by Mr Justice Mark Sanfey on Tuesday if he was prepared to comply with an order to stay away from Wilson's Hospital School, Co Westmeath.