The Irish teacher Enoch Burke, who was incarcerated in Ireland for three months, has been released from prison in advance of Christmas despite his refusal to purge his contempt of court.
Mr Burke was jailed in September this year for breaching a court order which stopped him from attending work at the school from which he was suspended for refusing to address a student who was transitioning gender with a new name and using the "they" pronoun.
According to Wilson's Hospital School in Co Westmeath, Mr Burke continued to turn up to the school for his previously timetabled hours despite the court order. An initial injunction was then put in place by the High Court, but after it was breached by Mr Burke he was jailed at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin.
