The Burkes go to Washington

[NaomhPadraigin]

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/enoch-burkes-family-spark-speculation-over-elon-musk-invitation-as-they-fly-to-washington/a1651186221.html

Is anyone else terrified about the Burkes ending up in the Oval Office, and what they might do/ say? 😱

(Apologies for the Indo Premium link, it's all I could see - I can only read headlines, maybe others can see the whole article).

I reckon Micheal Martin thought he had enough to deal with without being ambushed by the Burkes. I hope mammy Burke doesn't start ranting in the Oval office.

I wondered when that would happen…

That's what I would be worried about @honeyrider, unfortunately I can see that happening 🙈

Yeah, it's a worry, though it would appeal to a lot of conservative Republicans.

I'm sure they'll find someone to sue there as well.

Imagine, MM walks into the Oval Office to encounter not only the Orange One, but Elon Musk and a shedload of Burkes playing with Mini-Musk. If there was ever a moment to mutter ‘For fuck sake, I’m going home to Ballinlough’, that would be it.

Some of them were in jail, how come they got an ESTA?

And straight to the Silver Key too.

My inner evil thinks it will serve Micheal right for rolling his eyes that time he was asked what a woman was. With luck the entire Burke clan will be offered political asylum in Kansas, and the media spotlight will illuminate some of the craziness around the way Ireland treats the gender issue..

🤣 love this. Handing over the shamrock was a long term dream of MM too…probably not happening quite as he pictured it.

i assume Enoch is “turning up to work” so isn’t there. Otherwise I don’t think others have been convicted.

i’m sure they’ll find many kindred spirits in the states anyway.

Can someone please make a reality TV show about them!! You honestly wouldn't believe it in a soap opera

waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/03/12/burkes-even-a-bit-too-weird-for-christian-fundamentalist-republicans/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2PrwZmOd-_2KZ4ltcQkRXqJa184sOtylH3qBLeNR3M1jfLQ_N4nGY9ry8_aem_8qSaCjGIa3uX7BjS3-Utcw

I'm sure there is a GIF somewhere to sum up Micheál Martin's face when he heard they were nearby.

'Burkes?? Oh no! Where??!'

Oh fuck! I thought we'd escaped any shenanigans 😬
The US police will not be as kind to them as Gardaí
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/members-of-the-burke-family-disrupt-washington-dc-gala-dinner-attended-by-taoiseach/a634315291.html

I’ve just been reading what they did last night at the Gala dinner. WTAF? They are such an embarrassment.

It is disgraceful that FOUR of them managed to get past the venue security cordon. Though I do love the 'wtf?' expression on the face of the security bloke in that pic.

For some reason I had always assumed they had US supporters, like they were somehow connected with people over there. But it looks like they are just lone “activists”

Morto for all of us anyway. Although it doesn’t seem to have been picked up by US news at all.

Security must have been very lax.

They just fitted in. They look so normal until they start talking.

but but but my extensive study of mass market US cop shows has led me to believe that you can't get into this sort of event without ID and being on 'the list' as invitee or staff or whatever. Are you telling me NCIS etc isn't TRUE?

Maybe they dressed as waiters and sneaked in that way 🤪

The Secret Service made a schoolboy error by allowing the canapes to be served from room service trollies.

Did you see any of the Enoch Burke-related cards for Mother's Day and Valentine's Day? 'You'll never be rid of me, Mammy' as he is carried out of court, and 'I'll never ever ever ever leave you', outside the school gates

It's good that gentle humour is being directed at them, they crave attention and if the attention they get is taking the piss out of their DIY martyrdom, so much the better!

There are lots of people who actually agree that Enoch should not have been forced to use a student's chosen pronouns - oh what a tangled web that is, when schools go along with teenage fads! - but the subsequent behaviour of him and his family are just beyond the beyond.

I find the disrespect for the courts hardest to take - god knows our courts aren't perfect, but that's what we have, and that's what the ordinary Joe or Josephine Soap are expected to respect, and not show contempt for; but the Burkes consider themselves so special that the laws don't apply to them. Elitists.