Overview
- Burke appeared at the gates of Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath on Thursday morning and was prevented from entering.
- The High Court granted the school’s board permission to serve attachment and committal proceedings at short notice, opening the way for a fresh move to return him to prison.
- Mr Justice Brian Cregan had ordered Burke’s release on Wednesday to prepare his challenge to the Disciplinary Appeals Panel, saying the filings raised substantive and credible issues.
- The judge made the release conditional on not trespassing on school property and warned he would have no hesitation in sending Burke back to prison if the order was breached.
- Burke has been jailed since late November for contempt of a trespass injunction and has spent roughly 550 days in custody across the dispute, with the DAP case next due before the court for directions in early February.