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

“Oder”. What’s that?

Maybe, if I was being charitable, I would say self promotion isn't the number one reason, but I have to say the more I hear of them - and they've been featuring in media stories and court cases that I can remember reading about for years at this stage - the more I'm struck by their utter disingenuousness.

In every incident I can recall involving one of the family members there's always some fundamental untruth: a lie, a deliberate mischaracterisation of their own behaviour, or an omission of key details that would place them in a less than favourable light.

If they were fundamentalists who solely saw things in black and white, well, I still wouldn't agree with just about anything with them, but I'd concede that they're honest and steadfast in their own particular way.

But that's never the case with the Burkes. They are well able to lie and deliberately misrepresent things, which really makes me doubt their fundamental sincerity.

Even in the liveline clip I posted earlier - it's a small example but it tells a lot - Martina Burke tries to portray herself as a small concerned nobody with no connection to any campaign etc, even going as far as to say that she's never "lifted the phone" to talk to anyone about the marraige debate. That is a great big whopping lie. No mention that she's the matriarch of a pressure group that seems to consist of entirely her own family - Just a little ordinary concerned citizen. When Enoch appears, both refuse to answer the question about whether they're related or not, it's actually laughable.

And if you go back there's examples throughout their scrapes: Taking NUIG to court, but being less than truthful about what they did with college funds that they received; taking Arthur Cox to court, but being less than forthcoming about the 90k received and gladly kept as a payout - if you go back and look, every time, in every case, they've been caught flat out lying or deliberately leaving something out.

Do I think they believe all that they say? Yes, I'm sure they do and probably much worse beside. But I think they're cynical too and will lie without any qualm if necessary. Which I have to say makes them even more worthy of contempt in my eyes than the beliefs they hold.

A river in Germany or a word with a missing letter.

Didn't know much about these clowns before all the recent hoo ha, but sweet jesus that was a painful listen. What a shrill pair of arses they are. The smoke screen of "legality" is a very poor shield for the fact that image just went against their religious views and they're ridiculously afraid to simply say that, not to mention their bizarre reluctance to say whether they were related or not. A penny to anyone's pound that they wouldn't have had any issue if the mural was something that they agreed with.

Aah ….get it now….. same as ‘quawter’, you don’t bother with the ‘r’.

Got it…..thanks.

he was suspended with pay. and he was found liable for the schools costs at one of the hearings.

Martina : "if you do something clever Enoch, you'll get the same amount of media attention"

Indeed......

My favourite word to describe the vast majority of politicians I have seen interviewed on a given subject.

Forgive me for not keeping up with the minutiae of some British toff's private life 😋