Enoch Burke loses legal action over suspension by school and is ordered to pay €15,000 damages for trespass

Enoch Burke. Photo: Gerry Mooney
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The High Court has found Wilson’s Hospital School behaved lawfully when it suspended schoolteacher Enoch Burke last August.
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