Teacher Enoch Burke spent his first night in custody isolated from general prison population

Enoch Burke told the High Court: “I am here today because I would not call a boy a girl.”

Enoch Burke is brought into the Four Courts by gardaí, accompanied by his father, Sean Burke (left). Photo: Collins Courts

Robin Schiller, Shane Phelan and Aodhan O’Faolain

Teacher Enoch Burke, jailed for contempt of court stemming from a school transgender row, spent his first night in custody isolated from the general prison population.

Burke was committed to Mountjoy prison in Dublin yesterday by order of a High Court judge.