Westmeath School Pursuing €300k Costs From Enoch Burke

The Burke family outsidecourt services buildings in Dublin

The recovery application covers litigation from August 2022 to July 2023.

A Westmeath school is looking for €300,000 from Enoch Burke in legal costs.

The costs relate to just the first year of the litigation saga between Wilson's Hospital School and the history and German teacher.

A another eight bills of cost are being drafted, according to the Irish Times.

Mr Burke, who is serving a fifth spell behind bars for civil contempt of court, is also liable for €225,000 in High Court fines for failing to follow a court order to stay away from the school.

The State's legal costs adjudicator is expected to deliver a decision on the school's application in April.

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