Irish Examiner view: The State is trapped in an absurd legal loop of its own making

The case of Enoch Burke has passed from farce into something more troubling

Enoch Burke is prevented from entering Wilson’s Hospital School in Multyfarnham, Co Westmeath, on Thursday due to a High Court order barring him from the premises. Picture: Conor Ó Mearáin

The release of Enoch Burke from Mountjoy Prison after weeks in custody for repeated breaches of a High Court order might ordinarily have marked a pause in a saga that has already tested the patience of the courts, the school system, and the wider public. 

Instead, it has only reinforced the sense that the State is trapped in an absurd loop of its own making.