Enoch Burke turns up to school again despite sacking - read OP before posting

Beyond 2pm and The Journal are saying he's still there. He could end up with a substantial bill if costs are awarded against him in the High Court... let's face it, the school will want their costs, this hasn't been cheap for them. Either he has a source of funds or he has no intention of paying the €700 per day plus whatever costs are awarded against him.

I had suspected he'd walk out at 1:59pm with a final two fingers to the school and to the High Court and have a speech about how the world is against him, but clearly not.

It's also interesting the cross over between people who fume about scumbags who are forever in and out of court and people who support Burke's contempt of court.

I saw Simon Coveny and Sean Kelly accosted by a local wino in an exchange that went on for at least two minutes. It was hilarious, there were at least 20 witnesses. There are no videos. Just because you seem to think Enoch is being persecuted unfairly by *insert your particular cultural marxist bogeyman here* does not mean the entire thing has been fabricated because nobody has produced video evidence. Cop on.

One poster has suggested he refer to the student by their surname and avoid using pronouns. Or he could similarly have used the requested name and told himself that it's a nickname and there'd be no further need to discuss it.

No I wouldn't be at all peeved if the Burke's did work that was highly regarded by the locals.

The trouble is none of locals on here seem to believe you.

You keep saying, without evidence, the Burke's are doing great things.

I believe what the locals on here have said, not somebody with one of these third had "a man come up to me in the pub with 2 pints and said....." type stories.

Problem is he won't ever pay the costs.

And I have a general question as well.

From an Irish - Hiberno-English standpoint. I am used to ‘Yer man’ or ‘yer wan’. Neither of which Burke would be allowed to use?

What is the transgender Hiberno-English Irish equivalent?

Is it ‘Yer dey’ Or better still ‘yer youse’ ? Or down the country ‘yer ye?’ Someone tell me!

Because it sounds much more sensible to my ears than ‘they’. Is it ‘sibh’ in Irish class?

The law doesn't work that way. There's rightly a high bar on the behaviour you'd need to be engaging in before you can get an injunction like that, and silently driving into and out of a carpark wouldn't reach it.

But lets supposed it was possible, how would that be a solution? There's no indication he'd obey it, and even if he did, Enoch would have no problem walking the 5km (assuming he couldn't get a taxi) to keep up his crusade.

If you secured an injunction against them vising the moon, they'd be on the next rocket.

Is it religious freedom to interrupt a religious service? Because that's what Burke did.

If you ever feel that your boss is infringing on your religious freedom, arrange a meeting with them. Don't go to their religious service, interrupt it and harass them.

From what's been reported, it seems as though Burke would never have been the student's teacher. The student wasn't going to be in his class, and the direction for staff to refer to the student by their chosen pronouns was something issued to all staff.

If Burke felt that strongly, I would imagine it may have been fair for the Burke, the school and the student/parents to agree on a way which Burke could refer to the student if needed (eg. refer to them by their name or surname only rather than using pronouns as the student wasn't changing their name), in a way that wouldn't compromise Burke's beliefs but also would have respected the student's wishes regardless of whether or not Burke agreed with those wishes.

The school itself is a highly religious boarding school. A compromise to respect the student's wishes and Burke's religious freedoms likely could have been found. Burke may not have agreed or respected the student's wishes, whether for religious reasons or otherwise, but his religious freedom does not allow for him to just ignore school policy/directives at his own discretion. As per his actions, he does not appear to have been interested in reaching a compromise.

The student council sent him a letter asking him to stop which he apparently refused to accept. So clearly some students are affected by it.

Any Bible/Scripture experts out there? When Enoch says that transgenderism is incompatible with his religious beliefs, is this a modern stance on some biblical principle? If yes, what is this principle? The word itself didn't exist back in the day - was it implied in scriptural text or is this a personal interpretation by a dedicated believer? Has anyone in any of the many other Christian faiths come forward to denounce the term? Is he applying some canon principle within his form of Protestantism akin to the American priest in Kerry denouncing Catholics who failed to adhere to Catholic canon law.