He was released from prison in June.
Enoch Burke has arrived once again at the gates of a Westmeath secondary school despite losing a High Court action ordering him to stay away.
Mr Burke showed up at Wilson’s Hospital School in Multyfarnham on Thursday as first years returned for the new school term.
His appearance comes just two months after he was released from prison, where he had been incarcerated since September for failing to stay away from the school.
Enoch Burke returns to Westmeath school despite court order
In 2022, the Mayo native became caught up in a gender row at the school, where he was employed as a teacher, over the issue of gender reassignment.
In May of that year, the History and German teacher told his headteacher that he ‘opposed transgenderism’ due to his religious beliefs and stated he would not address a transitioning student by their new name and using ‘they’ pronouns.
The incident sparked a chain of events which saw him suspended from his role while an investigation into his conduct was carried out, eventually leading to his sacking.
However, even after he was put on leave, Burke continued to turn up at the school gates and refused to leave.
The school then took out a temporary court order to keep him away, but the devout evangelist kept turning up.
He had been held in Dublin’s Mountjoy Prison for 400 days for contempt of court until his release at the end of June.
Last month Mr Burke failed in his his defamation case in the High Court, where he now faces a huge bill of up to €200,000.
The Evangelical Christian filed a suit against a Sunday Independent article which branded him an ‘annoyance’ to his fellow prisoners.
According to The Irish Times, Judge Rory Mulcahy ruled that article could not be defamatory given his already damaged public reputation.
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