Enoch Burke ordered to pay newspaper's legal costs in failed defamation action

The principal costs relate to the four days it took to hear the case in May

The case related to the jailing of Enoch Burke (pictured) over his refusal to obey court orders to stay away from Wilson's Hospital School in Multyfarnham, Co Westmeath, where he had been employed as a teacher of history and German. File picture

Jailed schoolteacher Enoch Burke will have to pay the legal costs of his failed defamation action over an article in the Sunday Independent, the High Court has ruled.

Mr Justice Rory Mulcahy, in a written judgment on the costs issue published on Thursday, made an order that Mr Burke pay the costs of Mediahuis Ireland Ltd, publishers of the Sunday Independent. This is to include reserved costs and the costs of the court dealing with written submissions on costs, he said.