Enoch Burke sent back to jail after refusing 10 times to say if he would stay away from school

At one point in Friday's proceedings, the judge asked Mr Burke: "Are you being controlled by somebody else?" at which point, Mr Burke's mother Martina shouted the same question at the judge

The court heard that  Enoch Burke started attending the school again on a number of days when he got into the school grounds and on one occasion managed to get into the building and a transition year staff meeting. File picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

Teacher Enoch Burke has been sent back to jail by the High Court after again refusing to abide by an order that he stop attending at the school he has been sacked from.

Mr Burke, has been in prison for more than 400 days over failing to obey an injunction directing him to stay away from Wilson's Hospital School in Co Westmeath, appeared before Mr Justice David Nolan on Friday.