Westmeath school gets temporary injunction banning a suspended teacher from it's premises

People stood in front of the principal, they didn't put Burke in a headlock like George Floyd. He wasn't restrained and no newspaper said that he was.

Might as well stick to the facts because there won't be any embellishment if it does go up before the Teaching Council or the WRC.

when other people need to stand between you and someone you are harassing then you are acting the bollix and he was rightfully suspended.

Does this mean if I establish "The Church of Hatin' De Quares" it's possible we could end up in a position of our courts having to adjudicate on which forms of religion-inspired hatred are "valid" and acceptable, and which ones are not?

Ludicrous position created by our legislators and outdated constitution.

Trans people have successfully won discrimination cases using the Equal Status Acts for over 11 years now.

You are just being ridiculous now.

Gender (including trans) most certainly is protected in the Equal Status Acts. See 3 cases above where trans people have successfully used it.

The schools admissions policy specifically references the Equal Status Acts.

They have protests most week about the Covid response but before that they often had protests about Gay Marriage. I'm sure they had something before that about abortion. There's a picture taht's been shared a lot of them protesting the Pride march in Castlebar a few years ago.

Not polite at all when smearing LGB people with all sorts of homophobic claims about AIDS and Paedophilia.

Apparently one or two (perhaps more) of the older siblings don't go along with what the parents and the rest of them get up to.

Can't be easy for them tbh.

The Teaching Council or and the WRC are sticklers for procedure.

But that isn't exclusive to the school or the employer.

His actions post suspension will also be considered by the board of management.

As the school have acquired legal council I imagine everything will be done by the book, given this families form.

Much like his sister he will never again work in his chosen provision would be my opinion or least not for an employer.

I mean even if the teaching council cleared him to teach, who in their right mind would hire him, he would just find another cause to bother Jesus about.

Yet they are still ‘up and running’ at every dogfight going Quinn?

One would think that having numerous serious tilts against all comers in very serious court cases year after year would not but good for one’s health or wallet?

Whos balls are this lot breaking and who is bankrolling them would be a legitimate question?

what’s their agenda?

Are they just an awkward disfunctional family of stults?

Gender and sex are NOT the same thing. Irish law uses the word Gender probably because they were too prudish to use the word sex.

Sex is the scientific part a.k.a your genotype/phenotype. Gender includes the expectations placed on your sex by the culture and norms you grow up with e.g girls like pink and have long hair.

No adult or child should be constrained by gender norms or expectations, so boys should be free to grow their hair long and wear unicorn T-shirts if that is what they wish. Gender non-conformity is very, very common and we have known such people our entire lives. The difference now is that some kids/teenagers/adults are identifying as trans because they have received the message that if you don’t behave in such as way that is expected from your sex you are transgender.

Now this is off topic from thread so I will leave it there. I think the one thing we can all agree on is that Mr Burke only cares about his personal beliefs and not about the actual young people who are struggling with finding their place in the world.

Can't help but think of Homer Simpson claiming his hand is stuck in the vending machine, and just before they cut his arm off, ask him if he's just holding onto the can.

He's saying "I will never leave Mountjoy prison if in leaving that prison I must violate my well informed conscience, and my religious beliefs and deny my God.", whereas the reality is he could leave prison with his "well informed conscience" intact, by agreeing not to return to the school, then go through the disciplinary process for same, and if he loses and is told he must refer to the student as per the student's request, he can choose to leave his job.

Prison is the can in the vending machine he's desperately clinging to because unlike Homer who was stupid, Burke is relying on attention and being a martyr.