The hearing is expected to take four days and will be heard by Mr Justice Alexander Owens

Tánaiste Micheál Martin has said Enoch Burke's case is proof that homeschooling can cause isolation and that children should be educated in schools

In a judgement issued today, Mr Justice Brian O’Moore said the teacher has until March 23rd to pay the fines.

Simeon Burke was charged with threatening and abusive behaviour following disturbances at a Court of Appeal hearing last week.

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Simeon Burke was arrested following chaotic scenes after a judgment was handed down in his brother Enoch Burke's case.

Enoch Burke's challenge to set aside High Court orders directing him to stay away from Wilson Hospital's school following his paid suspension from his teaching post was dismissed.

The judge opted to proceed despite Enoch Burke's absence at around 10.08am.

The Court of Appeal said it would have ‘great difficulty’ with someone before the court who is ‘picking and choosing’ what legal orders to obey.

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Mr Burke has been fined €700 each day he has attended Wilson's Hospital School in Co Westmeath, in breach of a court order

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Earlier on Monday, Mr Burke had to be physically removed from a courtroom in the High Court by gardaí after disrupting a judge doing the call over of the chancery list

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Enoch Burke was not scheduled to appear at the High Court on Friday

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“I don’t believe I should pay a fine to practice my religious belief… I’m putting it in the nicest way,” Mr Burke said, standing at the school gates at the end of the teaching day

Mr Burke and the school have been engaged in a court battle after he claims he was wrongfully suspended

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The High Court decided to impose a daily fine on Mr Burke if he fails to purge his contempt to stay away from the Westmeath school.

Your afternoon update: Enoch Burke is to be fined €700 for every day he refuses to comply with a court order to stay away from Wilson's Hospital School; and an inmate was found dead at Castlerea Prison on Thursday morning.

The judge said a daily fine was 'the correct response' to Mr Burke's refusal to comply with a court order

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Sacker teacher Enoch Burke stood outside on the grounds of his former employer for several hours on Wednesday

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Enoch Burke returned to Wilson’s Hospital School, was arrested by gardaí, and then returned again following his release from Mullingar Garda station

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Enoch Burke spent over 100 days in Mountjoy Prison last year for contempt of the order restricting him from attending the school.

Mr Burke was informed of the decision in person at 3.30pm on Friday

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Earlier this week, the High Court refused to grant Mr Burke an injunction halting the disciplinary meeting after he said he would not comply with an order to stay away from the school.

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A High Court judge has refused to grant Enoch Burke an injunction halting disciplinary proceedings against him after the teacher said he will not comply with a previous court order to stay away from a Co Westmeath school

The court said it would be prepared to grant the injunction if the Co Mayo teacher was prepared to comply with an order directing him to stay away from the school while he is suspended on pay

It relates to Burke's ongoing refusal to comply with a High Court order not to attend at the secondary school where he is employed.

Your evening update: A man jailed yesterday for his part in a rural burglary was found dead in his cell this morning at Limerick Prison; and Northern Ireland secretary Chris Heaton-Harris said it would not have been wise to invite Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald to a meeting about the Northern Ireland Protocol.

A lawyer for Wilson’s Hospital School told the High Court on Thursday that Enoch Burke's bid for injunctions halting disciplinary proceedings against should be dismissed because his application is "premature" due to his refusal to obey a court order to stay away from the school's premises.

Burke said his application was urgent, and that the court was rising for the day when he was making submissions on what he claims is a crucial piece of evidence on which the entire application turned.

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A Co Westmeath-based secondary school has returned to the High Court claiming that teacher Enoch Burke has again breached the terms of an order preventing him from attending at its premises

Speaking to reporters at the gates of the school outside Multyfarnham, Mr Burke repeated his reasoning for showing up to the school despite his suspension by the school, and his defiance of a court order.

Mr Burke appeared before a vacation sitting of the High Court on Wednesday

The Judge said that the court would "not enable somebody found to be in contempt of court to garner some advantage from that defiance"

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Mr Burke has spent the last three and a half months in Mountjoy Prison over his continued failure to obey a court order to stay away and not try to teach at the school

Mr Burke described the offer by Mr Justice Conor Dignam as "an insult to justice," and suggested he may not participate in any way with the proposed hearing

Mr Burke said while he was no longer proceeding with his application for a section 33 order, he does want the full hearing of his defamation action to go ahead

Mr Burke claims that in breach of his constitutional rights to freedom of religion and religious practice he has been jailed over his objection to transgenderism.

Mr Burke is incarcerated at Mountjoy Prison over his refusal to comply with a High Court injunction to stay away from and not teach at Wilson's Hospital in Co Westmeath, in a row he claims centres around his objection to transgenderism.

Mr Justice Edwards ordered that Martina Burke be taken from the court and briefly left the bench