Enoch Burke returned to his former place of work today, a day after being arrested for trespassing at the school.
The teacher was jailed last year after failing to observe a court injunction banning him from attending Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath while he was suspended from work
He was informed last Friday of his dismissal from his position as teacher.
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Despite his dismissal, he has turned up to the school for two successive days. Staff at the school have refused him entry.
On Tuesday gardai arrested Mr Burke at the school and drove him to a Garda station. After he was released he was seen returning to the school’s grounds before leaving in the afternoon.
Mr Burke’s father dropped him off at the school. He then approached the door of the building but was prevented from entering the building.
Mr Burke was seen standing in the rain on school grounds and writing in a notebook intermittently while outside the building.
The evangelical Christian was suspended from work on full pay last year pending the outcome of a disciplinary process, after a number of incidents stemming from a request from the secondary school’s principal.
Mr Burke voiced on several occasions his opposition to the principal’s request to address a transgender child by their name and refer to them by the pronoun, “they”.
Mr Burke has rejected his dismissal from the school, asserting that he has a right to work and that he had been “wrongfully” arrested for trespass on Tuesday.
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