A school teacher in Ireland who refused to call a transgender pupil by the pronoun “they” has spent 11 days in prison for ignoring a court order to stay away from the school.

Enoch Burke failed to obtain a court injunction on Wednesday that would have paved his release and return to school, leaving him in Mountjoy prison in Dublin.

The evangelical Christian calls himself a prisoner of conscience and has won support from social conservatives and rightwing cultural commentators across the world since being jailed on 5 September.

A small group of supporters shouted in protest on Wednesday after a high court judge, Ms Justice Eileen Roberts, ruled against’s Burke’s attempt to overturn the school’s decision to suspend him with pay pending a disciplinary process. They applauded Burke as he was led away.

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