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Enoch Burke asserts that he has been sacked for his conscientious objection on religious grounds to referring to a trans student as ‘they’ but he was imprisoned for refusing to adhere to a court order. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

LATELY, the right to conscientiously object has been in the news. Unless you’ve been living under a rock you will know that last Friday evangelical Christian Enoch Burke was sacked from his teaching post at Wilson’s Hospital.

On Tuesday, he attended the Westmeath school despite being dismissed and left in the back of an unmarked Garda car. He later returned to the school where a row ensued with the principal.