Burke school's €4.4k in security funds

ADDITIONAL State funding is to be given to a school to help pay for security as former teacher Enoch Burke continues to attend its grounds.

- BY GRAINNE NI AODHA

The Department of Education informed Wilson's Hospital School that €4,440 would be given to the school to help pay for security costs for the next nine weeks due to the “exceptional circumstances’.

Mr Burke appeared before the High Court yesterday to represent himself.

The board of management of the Co Westmeath school and Mr Burke have been entangled in a legal dispute stemming from incidents over a request in 2022 from the school’s then principal to address a student by a new name and pronoun.

Mr Burke, an Evangelical Christian, has repeatedly argued that the direction went against his right to express his religious beliefs.

The school has been granted injunctive relief, restraining him from attending the school - however, he continues to attend in breach of the order.