Mick Clifford: It’s not about God’s law so much as Burke’s law

For some children, school can seem like a prison with the holidays forever on the horizon. For the foreseeable future, that is to be the fate of Enoch

Enoch Burke was jailed on Monday for the third in under  two years for refusing to stay away from Wilson's Hospital School in Co Westmeath. Picture Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin

Many moons ago, I visited a prisoner of conscience in Mountjoy. The man was a farmer from the Midlands, and he was being detained in the old Training Unit under a relaxed regime.

I was brought to his cell, where he offered me a cup of tea. He was pleasant but spoke with a steely determination.