Enoch Burke seeks to appeal against judgment which found suspension lawful

Jailed teacher asks Court of Appeal to allow late challenge to High Court ruling on suspension and school ban

Enoch Burke at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin. Picture: PA

Jailed teacher Enoch Burke has claimed his proposed late appeal of a High Court finding that he was validly suspended from his job at a Co Westmeath school raises issues of public importance and should be allowed to proceed.

Enoch Burke is asking the Court of Appeal (CoA) for permission to bring a late challenge to Judge Alexander Owens’s May 2023 ruling that Wilson’s Hospital School validly suspended him from his post, and a subsequent order barring him from attending the school premises.