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Old November 11th, 2022 #1
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Republic of Ireland Teacher Enoch Burke to remain in prison after refusing to purge contempt of court


SUSPENDED TEACHER ENOCH Burke is to return to prison after refusing to purge his contempt of court and comply with a temporary injunction preventing him from attending or teaching at the secondary school where he is employed. Appearing before court this morning, Burke said he would love to obey the court but that he cannot.


Suspended Teacher Enoch Burke.


Burke told the court that it could deprive him of his liberty and his dignity, but it could not deprive him of his integrity and his faith in god. Burke was committed to prison earlier this week until he agrees to obey a court order not to attend at or attempt to teach any classes at Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath Republic of Ireland, which suspended him from his position as a teacher of History and German.

He told the court that even if he had to remain in prison for “every hour of every day for the next 100 years” he would not compromise his beliefs nor agree to comply with the terms of the court order. The order was granted after the school’s lawyers claimed that Burke was not complying with either the terms of his paid suspension, as well as the injunction requiring him to stay away from the school. When the matter returned before the High Court today, Mr Justice Max Barrett, after considering submissions from Burke and Rosemary Mallon Bl for the school, ruled that the injunction should remain in place until the action has been fully determined by the High Court. In his ruling the judge accepted the school’s board of management argument that the application before the court today was not about Burke’s opposition to transgenderism and his religious beliefs.

It was as the school submitted, about Burke’s refusal to comply with the terms of his paid suspension and the terms of the injunction obtained by the school. Issues raised by Burke, the judge added, were matters for either the full hearing of the dispute, or at the hearing of the disciplinary process commenced by the school against the teacher. They were not something the court could take into account at this stage. The judge accepted that the criteria had been made out to entitle the school to have the injunction put in place until pending the outcome of the full hearing. Noting Burke’s intention not to purge his contempt, the judge directed that he return to Mountjoy Prison, Dublin. The judge also ordered Burke to pay the legal costs the school has incurred for bringing the applications before the courts. The matter was adjourned for a week.

Mallon argued to the court that the case before the judge was not about the teacher’s opposition to transgenderism, nor his objection to the school’s direction to staff last May to call “a boy”, as being “a girl” at the school. Counsel said the court was being asked to rule on applications brought arising out of Burke’s refusal to comply with what the school says is the teacher’s “lawful suspension” arising out of allegations about his conduct. Counsel said that the school had no wish to see Burke in prison but given his refusal to comply with the orders and his stated intention to attend at the school, her client was left with “no option” other than to bring proceedings before the High Court.

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Representing himself, Burke disagreed with counsel submission’s regarding what the case is about. Transgenderism, he said, was contrary to scripture, and that in this instance he would “only obey god”, and would “not obey man”. He said that agreeing to comply with his suspension would be akin to agreeing with transgenderism. During his submissions, Burke commended himself for his stance regarding the order, was critical of the courts regarding its treatment of him, and quoted the poet Robert Frost. Burke also said that the disciplinary procedures against him by the school are flawed and described any allegation of gross misconduct against him as being “ludicrous”. He said he had voiced his opposition to the school’s direction, he said the student at the centre of the request was not in any of his classes, nor had he had any direct dealings with that particular student.

School board claims

The school, located in Multyfarnham, Co Westmeath is the Church of Ireland’s Diocesan School for Meath and Kildare, in the Republic of Ireland. The board claims that despite being served with and being made aware of the making of interim injunction Burke had continued to attend at the school. The school claims that his refusal to comply with the injunction may be disruptive to the school’s students at the beginning of the new academic year. The court heard that Burke was placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of a disciplinary process commenced by the school, where he has been employed for several years, in Mid-August. That process commenced after it is alleged that Burke publicly voiced his alleged opposition to the school principal’s direction to address a student by a different name and pronoun. The school’s Board of Management had last week secured a High Court order against Burke preventing him from attending or teaching any classes at the school. The order was obtained because the board claims that Burke was not abiding by the terms of his suspension, which it is alleged he believes is unlawful, by attending at the school. The school claimed he would continue to attend the premises, in accordance with the teaching timetable assigned to him prior to his suspension, unless committed to prison. The court also heard that a substitute teacher has been hired to teach his classes while he remains suspended. The school says despite his suspension Burke has not been sanctioned and no finding has been made against him. In correspondence to Burke the school denied that anyone is being “forced” to do anything. The school said that it is focusing on the needs and welfare of its students and is affirming its policy in accordance with the 2000 Equal Status Act of not discriminating against any student. It says it has acknowledged Burke’s religious beliefs but expects him to communicate with the student in accordance with the student and their parent’s wishes.


June anniversary dinner

The school claims that last June a service and dinner was held to mark its 260th anniversary. It was attended by clergy, staff, past and present pupils, parents, and board members. It is claimed that Burke interrupted the service and said that the school’s then principal, Niamh McShane, should withdraw the earlier demand regarding the student. It is also claimed that he said that he could not agree with transgenderism, and said it went against the school’s ethos and the teaching of the Church of Ireland. The school claims that after he spoke members of the congregation and students walked out of the school chapel where the service was being conducted. It is claimed that at the follow-up dinner Burke did not sit at any table. After the meal he is alleged to have approached the Principal, and again asked her to withdraw the request regarding the student. Arising out of Burke’s alleged conduct a disciplinary process was commenced, and considered by the board, resulting in a decision to place him on administrative leave pending the outcome of the process. The next stage of the disciplinary process is due to take place later this month.


Republic of Ireland Teacher Enoch Burke to remain in prison after refusing to purge contempt of court.





SCHOOL ROW Teacher who refused to call transitioning student a girl blasts ‘insanity’ as he’s jailed


Enoch Burke can be seen being brought to prison

And the teacher has now been taken to Mountjoy prison in Dublin after Judge Michael Quinn ruled he he breached a court order to not attend the school. Speaking as he was jailed, Burke said: "It is insanity that I will be led from this courtroom to a place of incarceration, but I will not give up my Christian beliefs." He had earlier told the judge: "I am a teacher and I don't want to go to prison. I want to be in my classroom today, that's where I was this morning when I was arrested. "I love my school, with its motto Res Non Verba, actions not words, but I am here today because I said I would not call a boy a girl."

08 IX 2022. Teacher who refused to call transitioning student a girl


This man deserves credit and recognition for drawing attention to 'No Freedom of Religion for natives or Christians in the WOKE EU satellite state of the Republic of Ireland'.
 
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There are no shortage of religious schools in Ireland.

Good Counsel College - New Ross
St Augustine's College, Dungarvan - Dungarvan
Glenstal Abbey School - Murroe
De La Salle Brothers
De La Salle College - Churchtown, Dublin
De La Salle College - Dundalk
De La Salle College - Waterford
St Benildus College - Kilmacud, Dublin
Ard Scoil La Salle] - Raheny, Dublin
Terenure College - Terenure, Dublin
The Abbey - Tipperary
Ardscoil Rís - Dublin
Ardscoil Rís, Limerick - Limerick
Christian Brothers School - Charleville
Christian Brothers School - Dungarvan
Christian Brothers School - Roscommon
Christian Brothers School - Sexton Street, Limerick
Christian Brothers College - Monkstown, Dublin
Christian Brothers College - Cork
Midleton CBS - Midleton
Clonkeen College - Deansgrange, Dublin
Coláiste Íosagáin - Dublin
Coláiste Éanna - Ballyroan, Dublin
Coláiste Eoin - Booterstown, Dublin
Coláiste Mhuire - Marino, Dublin
Drimnagh Castle Secondary School - Drimnagh, Dublin
O'Connell School - Dublin
Our Lady's - Templemore
Rice College - Ennis
St. Aidan's - Dublin
Saint Brendan's College - Bray
St. Fintan's - Sutton, Dublin
St. Joseph's C.B.S. - Fairview, Dublin
St Mary's (The Green) - Tralee
St. Vincent's - Glasnevin, Dublin
Synge Street School - Dublin
Waterpark College - Waterford
Abbey Grammar School - Newry
Christian Brothers School - Glen Road, Belfast
Christian Brothers School - Omagh
Edmund Rice College - Glengormley, Newtownabbey
St Mary's Grammar School - Belfast
Cistercian College - Roscrea
Scoil Chaitríona - Glasnaíon, Baile Átha Cliath 9
Dominican College - Griffith Avenue
Dominican College Sion Hill - Blackrock, Dublin
Muckross Park College - Dublin
Newbridge College - Newbridge
Laurel Hill Coláiste - Limerick
Gormanston College - Gormanston
St Francis College - Rochestown, Cork
Blackrock College - Blackrock, Dublin
Rockwell College - Cashel
St Mary's College - Rathmines, Dublin
St Michael's College - Dublin
Templeogue College - Templeogue, Dublin
Marian College - Dublin
Marist College - Athlone
Moyle Park College - Clondalkin, Dublin
Catholic University School - Leeson Street, Dublin
Chanel College - Coolock, Dublin
St Mary's College - Dundalk, Co Louth
Patrician School - Newbridge
St Joseph's Patrician College - Galway
Manor House School - Raheny, Dublin
Coláiste Chríost Rí - Cork
Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh - Bishopstown, Cork
Presentation College - Bray
Presentation Brothers College - Cork
Calasanctius College - Oranmore
Presentation College - Headford
Scoil Mhuire - Clane
Presentation - Tralee
Killina Presintation Secondary School - Tullamore
Salesian Secondary College (formerly Copsewood College) - Pallaskenry
Salesian College - Celbridge
Loreto Abbey, Dalkey
Loreto College, Balbriggan
Loreto College, Cavan
Loreto College, Foxrock
Loreto College, Mullingar
Loreto College, St Stephens Green,
Loreto College, Swords,
Loreto Convent Secondary School, Letterkenny
Loreto Secondary School, Bray
Loreto Secondary School, Fermoy
Loreto Secondary School, Kilkenny
Loreto Secondary School, Navan
Our Lady's Secondary School, Templemore
Mercy College - Coolock, Dublin
Sancta Maria College - Rathfarnham, Dublin
St Joseph's - Navan
St Joseph's - Tulla
St Leo's College - Carlow
Scoil an Spioraid Naoimh
St Vincent’s secondary school Dundalk Louth
Belvedere College - Dublin
Clongowes Wood College - Clane
Coláiste Iognáid - Galway
Crescent College - Limerick
Gonzaga College - Ranelagh, Dublin
St Declan's School - Dublin
Mount Anville School - Dundrum, Dublin
Scoil an Chroí Ró Naofa
Castleknock College - Castleknock, Dublin
St. Paul's College - Raheny, Dublin
St. Patrick's Classical School - Navan
St. Flannan's College - Ennis
Garbally College - Ballinasloe
St. Brendan's - Killarney
St Michael's College - Listowel
St. Colman's College - Fermoy
St Eunan's College - Letterkenny
St. Finian's College - Mullingar
St Jarlath's College - Tuam
St Kieran's College - Kilkenny
St Macartan's College - Monaghan
St. Mary's College - Galway
St. Mary's Knockbeg College - Carlow
St Munchin's College - Limerick
St Muredach's College - Ballina
St Peter's College - Wexford
Summerhill College - Sligo
Coole National School - Summerhill, County Meath

There must be some that are secular. There is also no shortage of reasons for opposing "transgenderism" that are not based on religion.
I think he would have done better to comply with the paid suspension and await his day in court. But a man must follow his conscience and if this is what his conscience compelled him to do so be it.
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Old December 13th, 2022 #3
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Enoch Burke in jail for Christmas as he refuses to obey court order





Enoch Burke is set to remain in prison over the festive period as he refuses to obey a court order to stay away from the secondary school he taught at.


JAILED TEACHER ENOCH Burke will remain behind bars for the festive period after he again refused to obey a court order to stay away and not try to teach at the secondary school he is employed at. Despite refusing to purge his contempt Mr Burke, via a video link from Mountjoy, pleaded with Mr Justice Conor Dignam on Tuesday morning to release him from custody, telling the court that he was “not a thief, a murderer or a drug dealer” and was behind bars because of his religious objections to “transgendarism”.


The Judge said that was not prepared to release Mr Burke, given that the teacher at Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath is not prepared to purge his contempt and comply with what the judge said is “a valid court order.” Despite his refusal to comply with the order Mr Burke can secure his release at any point by coming before the court and purging his contempt.


The judge’s ruling promoted an angry response from Mr Burke’s parents Sean and Martina Burke, who were present in court with two of their other children, strongly criticised the judge and the judiciary over the jailing of their son. Sean Burke said the court’s refusal to release his son from prison was “unbelievable,” adding that son was not a criminal. He said that he had brought his son up to have strong Christian values, and the objections to people being transgender is in the Bible, “from the book of Genesis to Revelations” Mr Burke Snr added.


Enoch Burke’s mother Mrs Martina Burke said the judiciary will face judgement from “a higher power” and “God Almighty” in relation to their decisions regarding her son. She said that the case was “all about Transgendarism” and her son’s constitutional right to freely express his religious beliefs, which it has been claimed have been breached. She said that a child of primary school age knew what the case was all about. “Shame upon you” Mrs Burke also told the court.


After Mr Burke’s parents had concluded their addresses to the court Mr Justice Dignam said that he was “not going to enter into a debate” with the Burkes about the court’s ruling and rose from the bench.


In refusing to purge his contempt Mr Burke repeated what he has previously told the court that by agreeing to comply with the order would amount to an acceptance of “transgenderism”. He said he was not prepared to do this as it would be in breach of his Christian beliefs, and his duty to God. He added that he had never been in trouble with the law, and he pleaded with the court to use its discretion to “free me for Christmas,”


Mr Burke said as the time of the year when the birth of Christ is celebrated by most of the world, he should be released adding that “I am in prison for my religious beliefs.” In his submissions Mr Burke also criticised a decision not to allow him to appear before the court in person.


An order directing the prison authorities to produce him before the Court in person on Tuesday, he said, had been refused and he had been allowed address the court via the video link. He said that this denied him the chance to speak with his legal advisor, his sister Ammi Burke, and had “inconvenienced” both him and the prison services.


He demanded to know why he had not been allowed attend in person and had asked why the matter was not being dealt with by Mr Justice O’Moore who has been dealing with the main dispute between Mr Burke and Wilson’s hospital.


Mr Justice Dignam said that while Mr Burke had advanced his arguments in a respectful and eloquent manner. Mr Justice Dignam said there was nothing unusual with a different judge hearing the review matter in relation to the contempt and said that he could not enter into a discussion as to why another judge had refused to grant Mr Burke a production order for Tuesday’s hearing.


Mr Burke has been incarcerated at Mountjoy since September over his refusal to comply with High Court injunction to stay away from and not teach at the Co Westmeath school.


He claims the row centres around his objection to “transgendarism”, and to describe a student at the school who wishes to transition as a ‘they’ rather than a ‘he’ or a ‘she’.


The school brought high court proceedings against Mr Burke over his alleged failure to comply with the terms of his suspension on full pay from the school.


The school, represented by Rosemary Mallon Bl, obtained the order committing Mr Burke, who had been suspended pending the hearing of a disciplinary hearing into allegations of misconduct against him, to prison over his failure to comply with the terms of an injunction requiring him to stay away from the school until the disciplinary process has been completed.


Mr Burke, a History and German teacher, was suspended on full pay late last August pending an investigation into alleged misconduct. The school claims that his refusal to comply with the injunction was disruptive to the school’s students.


In a counterclaim Mr Burke says he should never have been the subject of disciplinary process after he expressed his objections to the school’s direction to its staff regarding how to address a student who wishes to transition from male to female, seeks various orders and declarations against the school.
Mr Burke’s appeal against the injunctions which resulted in contempt of court proceedings, and his eventual incarceration for failing to abide by an order obtained by the school are due to be heard in February.


The full hearing of the action brought against him by the school remains pending before the High Court.


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Enoch Burke in jail for Christmas as he refuses to obey court order to stay away from the secondary school he taught at.

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Rep. of Ireland is now a satellite state of the EU overseen by gay Indian satrap Varadkar.
 
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The truth about the Enoch Burke case - Catholic Herald



The story of an Irish teacher being jailed for refusing to comply with a request from his school to refer to a girl using the pronoun ‘they’ and use that person’s new name has received global attention.


Although the story is not so straightforward as presented by both his supporters and detractors, the substantive issue of whose belief systems are to take precedence is getting lost in the conversation. Ultimately, this is what it is. A clash of conscience and belief.


Enoch Burke comes from a well-known conservative, Evangelical Christian family in the west of Ireland. He has nine brothers and sisters, and many of them are not afraid to stand up very publicly in defence of their beliefs. There is even a Wikipedia page dedicated to them.


The facts of the matter are that Enoch Burke is in jail for refusing to abide by a court injunction to desist from attending the school where he has been suspended from teaching, on administrative leave. The administrative leave arose pending the resolution of a disciplinary process which arose due to Mr Burke’s behaviour in refusing to accept instruction from the school to address a transgender child by their preferred name and to use the pronoun ‘they’ instead of ‘he’.


This series of events colours how the issue is being narrated, not just in Ireland but outside as well. His supporters are determined to maintain the narrative that he is now in jail because of his refusal to compromise his beliefs and to accept a fantasy that a boy can be a girl. His detractors want to maintain that he is imprisoned simply because he refused to comply with the Court injunction and this is the natural consequence of that. Reuters has even produced a ‘fact-check’ on the issue.


There are those in-between, uncomfortable that someone should ultimately end up in Ireland’s most well known prison, Mountjoy, for these actions, but feel that out of basic decency to the child, he should really just have complied. The latter is a common thread from both conservative (right-wing) commentators such as John McGuirk at gript.ie and liberals (left-wing) commentator Matt Cooper on extra.ie.


While Cooper engages in some sophistry claiming ‘Enoch Burke did not spend the last two nights in Mountjoy prison because of his religious beliefs but as a consequence of them’, his attempts underline how difficult it is to separate the substantive issue from the procedural one. And Cooper, like others, plays the narrative that it is Enoch Burke who is seeking to impose his (religious) beliefs on others, yet it is Burke that has ended up in jail, making a mockery of the popular assertion that he is not being compelled to speak in a particular manner.


For Cooper, Burke was simply wrong in not doing what was requested. This is central then to how he – and others – view Burke’s refusal to comply with his suspension, and subsequent court order. On each step of the path to prison, Burke was asked to tacitly submit that his beliefs are subject first to the law of the land rather than to God. For the committed, this is the interface where rendering to Caesar meets rendering to God. It is a grey area to determine whether submitting to the process is admitting that the process is legitimate in the first place.


Irrespective of the various perceptions, it is clear that Burke is a prisoner of conscience and that is an important point. Burke is being asked to choose between liberty or violating his conscience. For many commentators, both in traditional and social media, there is little sympathy for his predicament. Derided by some as a ‘loon’ along with other less complimentary remarks, when it comes to a clash of cultures, and increasingly, civilisations, the dictum of defending the right to say something, whether you agree or disagree with it, is rapidly becoming an anachronism.



The losing battle being fought in protecting freedom of religion, free speech and conscience is quickly moving to centre-stage in a clash of belief-systems in the West. The Burke case has brought uncomfortably to the fore that there is both division on these issues and that there is no ready-made solution or compromise to be had that does not require the submission of one side or the other.


In Ireland, the Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee, has prepared an updated hate-speech bill to be brought to the legislature whose content will be brought more closely into focus with the jailing of a young man for standing by his religious convictions. While many will celebrate that it will be easier for the government to bring prosecutions for ‘hate-speech’, the case of Enoch Burke will highlight the dangers inherent in subjective legislation designed to “let perpetrators know that they will be punished for spreading hate, prejudice and division”.


What is most evident in this case is that in the space of a few short years, sympathy or empathy for those with religious convictions is quickly being subsumed beneath a new morality that compels acquiescence. What would have been unthinkable less than a decade ago has changed utterly. Norms have been turned on their head quicker than society and the law can adapt.


According to independent.ie, school principal Niamh McShane claimed in an email that “the right of persons to be called by a name of their choosing and in accordance with their preferred gender was a recognised right”. While this may not be a de-jure right under any law in Ireland, de facto it is becoming the norm.


If there is one weakness in Mr Burke’s stance, i.e. his determination to be a “Christian in Mountjoy Prison or [I can] be a pagan acceptor of transgenderism outside it,” is that the justice system may avoid having to grapple with the complex question for a little while longer and society will remain in a state of suspended disbelief as it guesses what the law actually is.


All the while, a young man resides in prison, rapidly brought to court for not violating his conscience on the same day that the Gardai (Ireland’s national police service) are reprimanded by a judge for stating that it will be a number of months before they interview a man accused of sexually abusing his daughter.


The judicial and political compulsion with policing thought and speech is juxtaposed in Ireland, embarrassingly, with an inability to police real – and violent – crimes, while the judiciary imposes custodial sentences on Enoch Burke while considering jail-time for violent and sexual offences, unnecessary.



The truth about the Enoch Burke case - Catholic Herald
https://catholicherald.co.uk/the-tru...och-burke-case



Transgenderism is just insanity. If you call it out according to the State it's you who is in the wrong, your the criminal.
 
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How Generous: Man Jailed After Refusing to Use Trans Pronouns Released for Christmas.


After backlash amongst the media and the general public, a man who was jailed after refusing to use the preferred pronouns of a transgender pupil has been released in time for Christmas. Enoch Burke, a teacher in Ireland, has been released from prison in time for Christmas after a ruling from the country’s high court on Wednesday. Burke — a devout Christian — was jailed in early September after a row erupted between him and his school over his refusal to use the preferred pronouns of one pupil who is said to identify as transgender.

With the dispute eventually ending up in front of Ireland’s High Court, Burke was eventually jailed after it was found that he breached a court order for him to stay away from the school, though Burke has maintained that such an order is in breach of his constitutionally guaranteed religious freedoms.

However, after backlash from the Irish public and criticism from within the country’s left-leaning legacy media, Burke was finally released from prison on Wednesday evening. According to a report by state-owned broadcaster RTÉ, Mr Justice Brian O’Moore issued the ruling, arguing that it appeared that Enoch Burke, in refusing to purge his contempt for the court order, appeared to believe he could gain from remaining incarcerated.

The judge also reportedly added that it was “intolerable” that taxpayers were both paying for Mr Burke’s salary — as he is currently suspended from teaching on full pay — as well as for his incarceration, and that it was difficult to avoid the conclusion that Burke has been exploiting his time in prison for his own ends somehow.

With a lawyer representing the school saying that there was little concern about Burke continuing to break the court order for him to stay away from the school during Christmas, as the school will remain closed until January 5th, the judge ordered he be released. He also added that, while the release could continue after the school holidays concluded, if Burke once again returns to the school grounds when it reopens in the new year, the school will be able to appeal to the court to have him put back into prison. RTÉ also reports Justice O’Moore as repeating the High Court’s claim that the court order demanding that Burke stay away from his school did not in any way interfere with Burke’s freedom of religion.

However, Burke has repeatedly claimed otherwise, having previously said that purging his contempt for the court order “goes against [his] religious beliefs”.

Burke is also reported by the state-owned broadcaster as telling Justice O’Moore during Wednesday’s hearing that he could not participate in the process of discussing his release, as he argued that doing so would be to agree that his incarceration was in keeping with the law in the first place. He also reportedly insisted that his incarceration ultimately went back to a demand from his principal that he addresses a male pupil using the pronoun “they”.


3 cheers for a man with that much courage

He is a hero. The School's job is to follow directions from their political supervisors, without question.

The globalist's don’t want you to have an opinion. So naturally they make it tougher for you to cope in the political world. I’ve never seen a business so busy in negatively affecting its customers. This is how you can tell it’s all about silencing us.



How Generous: Man Jailed After Refusing to Use Trans Pronouns Released for Christmas 24 XII 2022.


Like most "state owned media" RTE is a nest of gays.Teacher Enoch Burke didn't even teach this pupil. Irish society is leading in the EU nations race to the bottom.
 
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There were chaotic and unprecedented scenes at the Court of Appeal this afternoon as teacher Enoch Burke and five members of his family were forcibly removed from the courtroom by gardaí. One person was arrested during the incident.


The events unfolded as the court rejected Mr Burke's appeal against injunctions granted by the High Court last year directing him not to trespass at Wilson’s Hospital School in Multyfarnham, Co Westmeath.


Mr Burke was in court with his parents Sean and Martina and his siblings, sister Ammi and brothers, Isaac and Simeon. As it became clear that the court was ruling against him, Ammi Burke interrupted the appeal court President, Mr Justice George Birmingham, and began shouting about her brother’s constitutional rights.


The judge told her to sit down and asked gardaí to remove her from the courtroom, but she continued to shout at the three judges and was joined by other family members. Martina Burke told the judges they were "bowing before the altar of transgenderism". The three appeal court judges left the courtroom for a short time.


When they returned the judge said he would continue reading the judgment as they were concerned that justice should be seen to be administered in public. However, after the judges suggested that one part of Mr Burke’s case was "an exercise in creating soundbites", they were again interrupted by the family. Mr Burke said the judge’s remarks were a "disgrace".


After the judges had left the bench for a second time, Ammi Burke was dragged from the courtroom by gardaí.


There were scuffles, struggles and chaotic scenes as other members of the Burke family tried to resist attempts by gardaí to remove them. Enoch Burke shouted "Leave my father alone" and called gardaí "thugs". Simeon Burke, the youngest of the family present in court today, was removed from the courtroom by around five gardaí and carried to the front gate of the Four Courts.


Enoch and his brother Isaac were restrained by two other gardaí. Sean and Martina Burke were then removed from court after further struggles and scuffles, followed by Enoch and lastly Isaac. Isaac Burke accused the gardaí of dragging two elderly people out of court before sitting on the floor and being dragged out himself. Journalists and transition year students who were in court had to move out of the way as the scuffles continued all around them.


Members of the Burke family eventually left the Four Courts and walked around the corner to the Bridewell Garda Station where they are talking to gardaí in the front office of the station.


Journalists later received copies of the interrupted ruling, in which all of Mr Burke's challenges to the injunctions were dismissed.


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Arrest made as members of Burke family removed from court 07 III 2023.

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In May, Justice Owens found that Burke was lawfully suspended from his teaching position at the school.



Enoch Burke pictured outside the Four Courts earlier this year.

SCHOOLTEACHER ENOCH BURKE, who was dismissed from his position for alleged gross misconduct, has been ordered to pay legal costs to Wilson’s Hospital School in their successful High Court action against him earlier this year.

During a heated exchange with Justice Alexander Owens today, Burke said that his case concerned his refusal to refer to a student who allegedly wished to transition by a different name and by a different pronoun and was one of religious belief and freedom of consciousness. He said objecting to people being transgender was the right of every citizen of Ireland.

Awarding the costs to the school, Justice Owens also made an order restraining Burke from trespassing on the premises of the school in Multyfarnham, Co Westmeath, but said that the German and History teacher was not prevented from attending outside the school gates.

In its action, the school had argued it was correct to place Burke on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of a disciplinary process against him.

It submitted that Burke was dismissed from his position because he had intimidated and harassed a colleague and had breached the confidence of a student in the school who wished to transition.

Burke, who denied any wrongdoing, argued that his suspension arose out of his opposition to people being transgender and an alleged direction by the school to refer to a student who wishes to transition by a different pronoun.

In a counterclaim, he submitted that the disciplinary process against him should be set aside and that it breached his constitutional rights, including his right to freedom of expression of his religious beliefs.

In May, Justice Alexander Owens found that Burke was lawfully suspended from his teaching position at the school.

Counsel for the school, Alex White SC, today said that Wilson’s Hospital School was seeking damages of €15,000 for Burke having trespassed, as well as costs involved in the case. White said that on the second day of the original hearing, Burke was not present in court as he was not willing to “cease his disruptive conduct”, and he went on to say that Burke was “the author of his own misfortune”.

On 28 March, Justice Owens ruled that Burke could not attend the courtroom and could instead view matters by video-link after finding that he was in contempt of the face of the court for his constant interruption of the proceedings.

Defending himself, Burke said that he came to court to seek justice from “an unlawful suspension and unconstitutional process invoked against” him. He said that his case was one of religious belief and freedom of conscience and accused Justice Owens of having “exalted religious belief to the most serious of crimes” in his original judgement.

He said that objecting to people being trangender was the right of every citizen of this country and asked Justice Owens: “Where was your oath when you wrote that religious belief was gross misconduct?” “You said that my religious belief was capable of amounting to gross misconduct if the charge was proved,” said Burke. “These proceedings have been initiated against me because I took a stand on my religious belief, I stand by my actions in speaking up, and for the court to now ask me to pay something is punishing me for that religious belief,” he said.

Justice Owens told him that what was at stake in the current proceedings was whether the court would award costs to the school and said that there would have to be exceptional reasons as to why the costs should not follow. Burke said that the court had a constitutional obligation to uphold his rights, and he went on to say that Justice Owens had “reneged” on the vow he made when becoming a judge.

“That is a very serious matter, is an inalienable right and no judge can take it away, and no one can indict someone for the exercise of that right. It’s not your remit to do that, it is the command of God, the first commandment for Christians. Christians have a right. You took his name in your lips when you made that vow,” said Burke.

Burke also said that he had been barred from the original hearing and gardaí were placed outside the court doors, but Justice Owens said that Burke had not been barred from the court.

“It was made clear to you that you were most welcome to come back provided you gave an undertaking to abide by the rulings of the court. I tried to do everything in my power to facilitate this hearing and you refused to play ball,” said the judge.

After listening to Burke’s submissions, Justice Owens said that he had adhered to his oath as to how he decided the original case. “You’ve harangued me now for nearly an hour,” said Justice Owens, ruling that he was awarding the school the costs.

The judge told Burke that he was still free to appeal the outcome of the original case in which Justice Owens ruled that Burke was lawfully suspended from his teaching position at the school.

In May, Justice Owens ruled that the school, subsequent to suspending Burke, was also entitled to a permanent injunction prohibiting him from attending at its premises and damages of €15,000 for his continuing trespass at the school’s campus. The judge said that the damages were in addition to the €700 per diem fine that had been imposed by the High Court on Burke for his ongoing breach of earlier orders requiring him to stay away from the school’s premises.

The court heard evidence of Burke’s behaviour at a school event last June, when he publicly voiced his objections to what he called “transgenderism”, and at subsequent meetings held in August 2022 where his behaviour had been discussed.

Justice Owens said that the school’s former principal Niamh McShane was “fully within her rights to express her views” about Burke’s conduct at the school event and at staff meetings over the request regarding the student. The judge said that Burke had defied court orders and the board by attending at the school following his suspension.

Burke has launched an appeal against his dismissal from the school, which was due to be heard by a three-person Teacher’s Disciplinary Appeal Panel. Earlier this month however, he secured a last-gasp temporary injunction restraining the hearing of the appeal due to his apprehensions of alleged bias. Burke’s bid for a permanent injunction against the hearing is to be fully contested by the appeal panel.

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Enoch Burke ordered to pay legal costs to school that suspended him 18 VII 2023.



Definition of a judge: a politician with a wig.

Freedom of religion ONLY for migrants and 'new age' good little soldiers who don't rock the globalist boat.

Certainly no freedom of religion for fundamental protestants. Islamic fundamentalism however, couldn't be more welcome.
 
Old December 12th, 2023 #9
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200 days in prison with drug dealers and murderers over his refusal to accept a direction from the school to address a student by a different pronoun.


Enoch Burke leaving the High Court in Dublin at an earlier appearance this year.


ENOCH BURKE WILL remain in Mountjoy Prison after he again refused to give an undertaking to comply with a High Court order to stay away from Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath. Burke, after being asked on several occasions by Mr Justice Mark Sanfey if he was prepared to comply with an order to stay away from the school, said compliance with the order would mean “giving up” of his religious beliefs and and an endorsement of “transgenderism”.

During the course of what was a fraught and at times heated hearing, Burke and members of his family were directed by the judge to leave the courtroom for interrupting the court. The judge left the bench on several occasions during the hearing. Burke and his family voiced their strong criticisms of several judges who have considered and ruled on aspects of the ongoing legal battle and lawyers representing the school board. The media was also criticised by members of the Burke family.

In submissions to the court he said that he was in prison because of decisions made by various judges.

Criticism of judges

He said that lawyers for the school had been involved in covering up evidence relevant to his case, and made strong criticisms about various judges who had heard and made various rulings in his case. The judges criticised included Mr Justice George Birmingham, Ms Justice Marie Whelan and Mr Justice Brian O’Moore of the Court of Appeal, and Mr Justice Alexander Owens and Mr Justice Max Barrett in the High Court.

He said that he now spent over 200 days in prison with drug dealers and murderers over his refusal to accept a direction from the school to address a student by a different pronoun.

Mr Justice Sanfey told the teacher that the court was only concerned with whether the teacher was prepared to purge his contempt and give an undertaking to stay away from the school, which would secure his release. The judge also told Burke that he “didn’t like being talked over” as it was “disrespectful to the court.” Burke, who said he had a right to make submissions to the court, continued with his criticisms of various parties, and asked the court if it was concerned about judges “who should not be” in the positions they held, and questioned their appointments and promotions.

The judge said that Burke may well have issues regarding decisions made by other members of the bench in relation to the dispute.

There were other forums where such concerns could be addressed, the judge said, however today’s review of the teacher’s imprisonment for contempt was not one of them.

School board

Counsel for the school board Rosemary Mallon Bl, who rejected the personal criticisms made by Burke, said that her client was “reluctantly” asking the court to maintain the ‘status quo’ by keeping Burke in prison until he is prepared to abide by the order to stay away from the school.

The judge, who said it was clear that Burke was not prepared to comply with the court’s order, ruled that the teacher remain incarcerated until he is prepared to purge his contempt. Burke can come to court at any time and give undertakings that will secure his release, the judge added.

The judge said that Burke and members of his family had engaged in an orchestrated campaign designed to disrupt the proceedings before him. Such behaviour, as well as the flagrant breach of court orders, “wont be tolerated”, the judge added. The matter was adjourned to a date in February for a further review.

September jailing

Burke was jailed for the second time last September after the school’s board asked the court for orders to jail the teacher over his deliberate failure to comply with a permanent injunction restraining him from attending at the school granted by Mr Justice Owens in July. The board claimed that Burke had attended at Wilson’s Hospital campus every day since the 2023-24 school year commenced in August.

The school board alleges that Burke’s presence at the school had caused “severe disruption for staff and students”. That claim is denied.

In September, Mr Justice Mark Heslin ruled that Burke had “flagrantly breached” the orders requiring him to stay away from the school and ordered that he be committed to prison “indefinitely,” until he purges his contempt.

Burke, who is separately appealing a decision by the school to dismiss him from his post as a German and History teacher, has argued that he is in prison because of his opposition to ‘Transgendarism,’ and that Mr Justice Owens’ order is invalid.

Burke has also accused the courts of failing to recognise his constitutional rights to religious freedom and that those rights were breached when the school instructed him to refer to a male student by a different pronoun.

During his first stint behind bars the Evangelical Christian spent over 100 days in Mountjoy between September and December of last year.

Following his suspension from his position at the school in August 2022 Burke was sued by the school over his failure to comply with a court order requiring him to stay away from the school.

12 months ago he was released shortly before Christmas by Mr Justice O’Moore, without purging his contempt. He again started attending at the school after the holidays, and the High Court imposed a daily fine of €700 on Burke. Burke has also brought a challenge against the three-person panel of persons appointed to hear his appeal against his dismissal from his teaching position. Judgement is awaited in those separate proceedings against the panel.


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Enoch Burke to remain in Mountjoy after again refusing to stay away from Westmeath school.
12 XII 2023.

If those Judges in globalist Ireland didn't made the politically correct decision it would end their career.

Enoch Burke is Ireland's Julian Assange.
 
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Mr Burke’s stance, i.e. his determination to be a “Christian in Mountjoy Prison or [I can] be a pagan acceptor of transgenderism outside it”.


The story of an Irish teacher being jailed for refusing to comply with a request from his school to refer to a girl using the pronoun ‘they’ and use that person’s new name has received global attention.

Although the story is not so straightforward as presented by both his supporters and detractors, the substantive issue of whose belief systems are to take precedence is getting lost in the conversation. Ultimately, this is what it is. A clash of conscience and belief.

Enoch Burke comes from a well-known conservative, Evangelical Christian family in the west of Ireland. He has nine brothers and sisters, and many of them are not afraid to stand up very publicly in defence of their beliefs. There is even a Wikipedia page dedicated to them.

The facts of the matter are that Enoch Burke is in jail for refusing to abide by a court injunction to desist from attending the school where he has been suspended from teaching, on administrative leave. The administrative leave arose pending the resolution of a disciplinary process which arose due to Mr Burke’s behaviour in refusing to accept instruction from the school to address a transgender child by their preferred name and to use the pronoun ‘they’ instead of ‘he’.

This series of events colours how the issue is being narrated, not just in Ireland but outside as well. His supporters are determined to maintain the narrative that he is now in jail because of his refusal to compromise his beliefs and to accept a fantasy that a boy can be a girl. His detractors want to maintain that he is imprisoned simply because he refused to comply with the Court injunction and this is the natural consequence of that. Reuters has even produced a ‘fact-check’ on the issue.

There are those in-between, uncomfortable that someone should ultimately end up in Ireland’s most well known prison, Mountjoy, for these actions, but feel that out of basic decency to the child, he should really just have complied. The latter is a common thread from both conservative (right-wing) commentators such as John McGuirk at gript.ie and liberals (left-wing) commentator Matt Cooper on extra.ie.

While Cooper engages in some sophistry claiming ‘Enoch Burke did not spend the last two nights in Mountjoy prison because of his religious beliefs but as a consequence of them’, his attempts underline how difficult it is to separate the substantive issue from the procedural one. And Cooper, like others, plays the narrative that it is Enoch Burke who is seeking to impose his (religious) beliefs on others, yet it is Burke that has ended up in jail, making a mockery of the popular assertion that he is not being compelled to speak in a particular manner.

For Cooper, Burke was simply wrong in not doing what was requested. This is central then to how he – and others – view Burke’s refusal to comply with his suspension, and subsequent court order. On each step of the path to prison, Burke was asked to tacitly submit that his beliefs are subject first to the law of the land rather than to God. For the committed, this is the interface where rendering to Caesar meets rendering to God. It is a grey area to determine whether submitting to the process is admitting that the process is legitimate in the first place.

Irrespective of the various perceptions, it is clear that Burke is a prisoner of conscience and that is an important point. Burke is being asked to choose between liberty or violating his conscience. For many commentators, both in traditional and social media, there is little sympathy for his predicament. Derided by some as a ‘loon’ along with other less complimentary remarks, when it comes to a clash of cultures, and increasingly, civilisations, the dictum of defending the right to say something, whether you agree or disagree with it, is rapidly becoming an anachronism.

The losing battle being fought in protecting freedom of religion, free speech and conscience is quickly moving to centre-stage in a clash of belief-systems in the West. The Burke case has brought uncomfortably to the fore that there is both division on these issues and that there is no ready-made solution or compromise to be had that does not require the submission of one side or the other.

In Ireland, the Minister for Justice, Helen McEntee, has prepared an updated hate-speech bill to be brought to the legislature whose content will be brought more closely into focus with the jailing of a young man for standing by his religious convictions. While many will celebrate that it will be easier for the government to bring prosecutions for ‘hate-speech’, the case of Enoch Burke will highlight the dangers inherent in subjective legislation designed to “let perpetrators know that they will be punished for spreading hate, prejudice and division”.

What is most evident in this case is that in the space of a few short years, sympathy or empathy for those with religious convictions is quickly being subsumed beneath a new morality that compels acquiescence. What would have been unthinkable less than a decade ago has changed utterly. Norms have been turned on their head quicker than society and the law can adapt.

According to independent.ie, school principal Niamh McShane claimed in an email that “the right of persons to be called by a name of their choosing and in accordance with their preferred gender was a recognised right”. While this may not be a de-jure right under any law in Ireland, de facto it is becoming the norm.

If there is one weakness in Mr Burke’s stance, i.e. his determination to be a “Christian in Mountjoy Prison or [I can] be a pagan acceptor of transgenderism outside it,” is that the justice system may avoid having to grapple with the complex question for a little while longer and society will remain in a state of suspended disbelief as it guesses what the law actually is.

All the while, a young man resides in prison, rapidly brought to court for not violating his conscience on the same day that the Gardai (Ireland’s national police service) are reprimanded by a judge for stating that it will be a number of months before they interview a man accused of sexually abusing his daughter.

The judicial and political compulsion with policing thought and speech is juxtaposed in Ireland, embarrassingly, with an inability to police real – and violent – crimes, while the judiciary imposes custodial sentences on Enoch Burke while considering jail-time for violent and sexual offences, unnecessary.

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The truth about the Enoch Burke case.


and in WOKE Rep of Ireland Enoch Burke has beside 300 days in jail, lost his job and ended his Teaching career.
 
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Ireland: Schoolteacher to Remain in Prison Until He Agrees to Believe in Trannies




How much are the Irish willing to take, exactly?


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A schoolteacher in Ireland who argued that referring to a transgender student as ‘they’ instead of ‘he’ was against his Christian beliefs will spend the Christmas period in prison, a court has ruled.

Enoch Burke, formerly a history and German teacher at Wilson’s Hospital School in Co. Westmeath, was imprisoned for a second time in September. The teacher, who comes from an evangelical Christian background, had repeatedly failed to heed a court order barring him from entering the grounds of the school, from which he was fired last year.

Oh, so he’s not even Irish.

The one guy willing to actually stand up for himself.

Burke, who has been told by the court that he will be released from custody if he verbally agrees to comply with the order, said at a hearing in Dublin’s High Court on Tuesday that doing so would be “giving up” his religious beliefs and an endorsement of “transgenderism.”

Presiding over the court, Mr Justice Mark Sanfey said it had become clear that Burke had no intention of complying with the court order, and that that there was no justifiable reason to release him until he did so. The next review will be on February 27, Sanfey said, adding that Burke can secure his release at any point before then by saying he will abide by the order.

It’s too cliché to even say, but this is what they did in 1984: tortured people until they said “2+2=5” because Ingsoc says so. After you said “2+2=5,” you were free to go.

Ireland is now possibly the most out-of-control police state that has ever existed, possibly excluding a few short-lived communist regimes in the 20th century.

I can’t believe they’re tolerating it.

It’s purposeful humiliation, and it is being done by foreigners. The Irish Prime Minister is from India.

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Ireland: Schoolteacher to Remain in Prison Until He Agrees to Believe in Trannies
14 XII 2023.

"It’s purposeful humiliation, and it is being done by foreigners. The Irish Prime Minister is from India." - besides being Indian he's gay and an out and out globalist.
 
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Father of jailed former teacher Enoch Burke appears in court accused of assaulting garda


Sean Burke, left, with wife Martina Burke.


Sean Burke, of Cloonsunna, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, appeared before Judge Catherine Hayden at Dublin District Court today. SEAN BURKE, THE father of jailed former teacher Enoch Burke, has appeared in court today, accused of assaulting a female garda during an incident at the Four Courts last year. Burke, of Cloonsunna, Castlebar, Co. Mayo, appeared before Judge Catherine Hayden at Dublin District Court today. He is accused of assaulting Garda Victoria Fisher at the Four Courts on 7 March, 2023.

The incident allegedly occurred on the day his son Enoch was involved in a legal dispute before the Court of Appeal over his sacking by Wilson’s Hospital School in Co. Westmeath. Sean Burke faces a charge under section two of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act, categorised as a minor crime only dealt with at the District Court level.

However, a conviction can result in a fine and a six-month jail sentence. Burke, representing himself, indicated he would contest the case. However, he will be asked to plead formally at his next hearing.

A summary of prosecution evidence was handed over to Burke in court before the judge ordered him to return in three weeks. A later hearing date will be then allocated if he denies the charge. No evidence concerning the events on the date of the alleged offence was heard.

Enoch Burke, who taught history and German, has spent more than 200 days in Mountjoy Prison after the secondary school teacher defied a High Court order to stay away from his former workplace.


Father of jailed former teacher Enoch Burke appears in court accused of assaulting garda
01 I 2024.

ECHR won't touch this one.
 
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