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

👁️ Enoch Watch 👁️

Updated 21 August 2023

• Fri June 02 – Day 74 of EB protest at Wilsons Hospital School post dismissal.*
• Fri June 02 – Last Day of Term 
• Thurs July 6 - High Court (Justice Roberts) grants EB temporary injuction preventing Disciplinary Appeal Panel from proceeding on 7 July.
• Mon July 17 - High Court (Justice Owens) awards WHS legal costs + €15k damages against EB.
• Mon August 8 - High Court (Justice Dignam) defers judgement on injunction against Disciplinary Appeal Panel. Judgement still pending.
• Mon August 21 – Fines x 207 Days @ €700 per day (27 Jan to 17 July inclusive) = €144,900

Dates to note: Tomorrow will be one year since Enoch Burke's official suspension on 22nd August 2022

🏳️‍🌈 ⚧️ Donations to "Enough Enoch" GoFundMe in support of Irish LGBTQ+ charities = €11,245 ⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 (no change)

Donations to "Enoch Burke" GoFundMe to assist Enoch Burke pay daily fines = €40 (no change)

Donations to a new gofundme "Pay Enoch Burke's Legal Costs" started 18 July 2023 = €0

 *School closures / Public Holidays / Court Dates are excluded.

The legal costs must be eye-watering at this stage. I couldn't even hazard a guess. 💰️ 💰️ 💰️ 

I wonder if WHS have cut him off the payroll yet? Maybe tomorrow. (1 year since suspension).



No, the daily fines are not for each day he turns up at WHS, they are for each day he remains in contempt of the High Court injunction ordering him to stay away from WHS.

The fines began to be applied on 27 January and apply for every day since (including school closures, weekends, bank holidays etc) and will continue to accrue until he goes before the Court and purges his contempt.

Once the money gets to a level where he has no possibility of paying it, he might as well carry on.

He's apparently back at the school today!!!

If he is, I doubt anyone will be surprised.

The High Court need to get their finger out, and issue the judgement on the injunction over the Disciplinary Appeal Panel, so it can either proceed with the current members, or alternative members appointed.

Its ridiculous that this has been allowed to drag on over the summer, and into a new school year.

The independent article stated he has set himself up in a “corridor” ?

Shirley this is looking for a showdown of sorts? I didn’t think he was permitted to be on the school grounds, only outside.

Former teacher Enoch Burke has returned to the school that sacked him in what is seen as a pledge to continue his protest at his dismissal.

As the new term began today, Mr Burke arrived and took up position in a corridor in the school.

As far as I can remember, he is not allowed anywhere past the gate, though I'd need to go back and check.

If he is in a corridor, he is provoking a showdown. Twat.

Also wrong in the Indo;

“prompting the High Court to issue him with a daily €700 fine for every day he remained in contempt of court by turning up at Wilson’s Hospital.”

He is fined 700 euro every day for contempt of court whether he turns up at the school or not.

Is Daddy still driving him to school?

If he is inside, he’s probably looking for a confrontation to get some articles going and social media outrage.

Wilson’s will be smart enough not to fall for that, leave him there until 4 o’clock and just make sure he doesn’t interact with the students.

They’ll have a bouncer on the door tomorrow so he can’t repeat it.

I imagine he wants away from the mother and his dad is sick of driving him and they’ve concocted a plan that suits them both.

Hopefully he's beside the unisex toilets.

It was Justice Owens who, when he ruled that WHS suspension of EB was lawful, who also ruled that EB had no right to enter the school once he had been suspended and that his attendance afterwards amounted to trespass.. He said that WHS was entitled to a permanent injunction barring Enoch from the premises.

I guess that means WHS were hoping to avoid that - that the DAP would have taken place before the new school year, and some resolution would have been reached by now

I guess they will now have to formally apply to the High Court to have the temporary injunction made permanent.

Fair play to him, he's not a quitter anyway.

How many days are in the school calendar year? Are the media going to report on him being there for every single one of them? Or will they eventually stop covering the story?

 Or will they eventually stop covering the story?

They did stop covering it for a long time, but the guy rocking up for the first day of term is news.

The media are not the issue here, and if anyone thinks Enoch will just lose interest if he's not appearing in the news, they have not been paying attention.