Latest application by Wilson’s Hospital School comes after teacher started attending grounds of the school again in recent days
During Wednesday’s vacation sitting of the court the school’s board of management, represented by Rosemary Mallon BL secured permission to bring a motion seeking the Co Mayo teacher’s attachment and possible committal to prison arising out of his alleged failure to comply with a permanent injunction to stay away from the school.
The school was particularly concerned over an alleged incident where it is claimed Mr Burke entered a room in the school’s main building where teachers were holding a staff meeting in respect of the school’s transition year class. The matter came before Mr Justice Barry O’Donnell who on an ex parte basis granted the school permission to serve short notice of the attachment and committal proceedings on Mr Burke.The German and History teacher was released from Mountjoy Prison, where he has spent over 400 days in two different stints, in late June without purging his contempt.
Throughout this legal battle Mr Burke has claimed he has been imprisoned because he was being punished for his religious beliefs and his opposition to “transgenderism”.
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