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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
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Cate McCurry

HISTORICAL FACTS: Irish schoolteacher returns to jail over refusal to comply with court order | History Defined

An Irish schoolteacher will return to jail as he continues to refuse to comply with a court order barring him from his workplace following his suspension.

Enoch Burke, who is an evangelical Christian, was suspended from work on full pay last month pending the outcome of a disciplinary process after a number of incidents which stemmed from a transgender row in school.

Mr Burke voiced on several occasions his opposition to a request from the school principal to address a transgender child by their name and refer to them as the pronoun “they”.

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