Anyone else following the Burke vs Secondary School ongoings?

[LookItsMeAgain]

Just wondering if anyone else is currently following the ongoings between one Mr E Burke and his contempt of court issue?

www.thejournal.ie/enoch-burke-prison-3-5953238-Dec2022/

Yes, he is one of 'those' Burkes...

They converted or found evangelism (or it found them). I can't remember which article I read that in as there have been so so many.

There have been quotes from both parents and former students who said that he was a really good teacher - not much craic but a solid teacher.

As a general rule do you think it is right that someone not be employed because of their family, or would you just have a special list of undesirable families you wouldn't employ? Very dodgy territory to get into. And probably illegal.

I think it is fair to say the school knew who he was and what his beliefs were before they employed him. And for 4 years there was no problem. There's been no suggestion of any complaints from parents or students. There have to have been better ways for both the school and Burke to have handled this. He didn't even teach the child so it isn't likely that he would have had to talk to or about the child at all. The school could have created an "out" for him. He could have accepted that "out" but having said that, there's no evidence that he knows how to do that.

On Reddit there was a poster who said he was in College with Enoch, and the lectures would go on for hours due to his constant arguing with the lecturers.

That's SM for you. One of his other college classmates was quoted as saying he was never anything but polite and respectful and impeccably turned out (that gets mentioned a lot for some reason). Who knows?

It all kicked off in court today.

This was my favourite bit
twitter.com/JelliDeli/status/1629873184177545219?t=nvRVC28u00gQPozHvpOyhA&s=19

Missed the SixOne news, will definitely have to watch the 9 O'clock news!!

The whole family should be landed with a massive bill for wasting Garda and the legal system's time.

Their mother was loving the attention on her outside the court yesterday.

Pack of loolahs the lot of them.

I'm actually thinking there must be something in the waters around the greater Castlebar area what with the man being shot, his house being set alight and another man being arrested for it.

That, and a quantity of drugs and cash were found in a number of properties in the Castlebar area.

The whole family is unhinged. It's just a shame that no sane and rational teacher will object to the latest trans propaganda from the Dept. They dare not of course - or they will be ' cancelled ' on social media, especially as INTO is fully signed up to the cult . So no help from your union.

Go away Enoch! You're not helping 😣

Haha poor lad! Needed some warm gloves ?

Fully support him. He's saying what alot of parents are thinking. He seems to be gaining support too. This trans education movement needs resistance & a push back needs to happen.

Yes....the problem being the Burkes are so extreme in general that it is exposing opposition to gender woo to ridicule?

The transgender lobby can dismiss us all as right wing Christian nutbags ( probably funded by US Evangelicals). Because Enoch and Co don't reject pronouns in school because they believe in biology. Or women's rights. Or - God forbid - gay rights .

They believe in the literal truth of the Bible. But if people are starting to support him despite these things , that is an encouraging sign.

If you are still following the ongoings of the Burke Family (as a brother and sister have recently appeared in different courts on different matters) please give the courts reporter Frank Greaney a follow on Twitter. He's tweeting live from the courtroom and it's pure comedy (as are some of the replies he's getting).

Thanks @LookItsMeAgain will look it up now😁

Thanks @LookItsMeAgain, I'm supposed to be working but not sure I'll have time to do anything while following this 😁

Oh thank you !

Am not on twitter so all and any screenshots much appreciated!

I agree with the need for push back etc but will not agree with the basis of their objection, how they choose to convey their objections or their disregard for the court process (or the inquest or WRC process they have disrupted either for that matter). All the have done is made a mockery of our objections as parents/women/teachers.

I'm a teacher myself and am GC. I just toe the line at work though. I can't afford to do otherwise.

I'm confused generally about the gender stuff. But end of the day he made a kid feel like shit, that's pretty nasty. Being a kid is hads enough. Imagine being the kid in this situation.

*hard enough

@Chickenkeev he had no interaction with the kid about it and there has been no reporting about how the student feels about any of it (which is reasonable). If the school had been able to handle it in a way that it didn't hit the media the kid would never have known anything about it. He didn't teach the kid. He had no reason to talk about the child. If the school had acknowledged his right not to use "makey-uppy" pronouns there would have been no issue. I think he is completely self-defeating in the approach he has adopted but his initial issue was reasonable. The school did not handle this well. Including incorrectly stating that the child has a legal right to "pronouns". Simply not true. It is debatable whether it was him or the media circus which has been most impactful for the student.

His interaction with the pupil is the refusal to use the pronouns. Which would have been distressing for the pupil rightly or wrongly. And now this whole circus. There is a child at the centre of this and it's awful. And his contempt for our judicial system is not something to be admired