State aims to appoint receiver over Enoch Burke's salary to collect nearly €80k in fines

Mr Burke's mother Martina, sister Ammi and brother Isaac attended court before gardaí were called to take Isaac and Martina from the courtroom

Although he was sacked, Enoch Burke continues to be paid his salary by Wilson's Hospital School in Westmeath on an administrative leave basis because an appeal over his termination is still pending. File picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

The High Court is to be asked by the State to appoint a receiver over the salary of teacher Enoch Burke in a bid to collect outstanding fines.

The move to appoint a receiver "by way of equitable execution" will, if approved, give the State the power to collect from his salary some €79,100 which Mr Burke so far owes in daily €700 fines for turning up at the school in contempt of court orders that he stay away.