Enoch Burke freed from Mountjoy Prison by judge despite indicating he will return to Co Westmeath school. Irish Sun Paper.

The High Court judge told Mr Burke that his ‘ability to shoot yourself in the foot is unparalleled, in my experience’

chool where he workedCredit: News group Newspapers

Mr Burke, who appeared before the High Court, rejected the reasons given by the judge for his release and accused it of an “outstanding U-turn”.

The judge said he felt Mr Burke would be “hamstrung” in preparing a legal case while in prison, and he dismissed Mr Burke’s rejection of that reasoning as “nonsense”.

The transgender row educator was later spotted leaving Mountjoy with large plastic bags containing stacks of legal papers and a black suit.

Mr Burke had been in jail since late November for breaches of a court order directing him not to trespass at Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath, where he worked as a teacher.