The case related to the jailing of Mr Burke, an Evangelical Christian, over his refusal to obey court orders to stay away from Wilson's Hospital School in Multyfarnham, Co Westmeath, where he had been employed as a teacher of history and German

Ronan Lupton SC, for Mr Guerin who is also a member of Fingal Council, said the man who made the threat had been in court along with a number of other people who also attended some of the defamation case.