Enoch Burke and members of his family removed from court after disruptions

Objecting to the board of Wilson’s Hospital School being joined as notice parties to his action, Burke said: 'They’re a foreign presence in the court this morning.'

Enoch Burke leaving Wilson's Hospital School in Co Westmeath having been refused entry. Burke has spent almost 600 days in separate spells in jail over his failure to abide by court orders directing he stay away from the school. File picture: Brian Lawless/PA

A High Court hearing relating to Enoch Burke’s challenge to the membership of a disciplinary panel convened to hear his appeal over his dismissal from Wilson’s Hospital School was briefly suspended on Friday.

The teacher was removed from the court at the Four Courts for disrupting the proceedings, and directed to re-join the hearing from prison by videolink.