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

Schools for the most part, have changed. There's way more acceptance of LGBT kids and neuro-diversity than there was in my secondary school days (mid 90's).

My brother in law came out in 4th year, through Facebook during the gay matriage referendum. We were all worried for him, but we needn't have been. His school was great and supportive and he was one of the more popular lads in his school. I was surprised as this was a country school with a heavy emphasis on the GAA.

It's wonderful to see that acceptance programs are working and getting through to people. Even my mother in law, who has generally poo-pooed mental health and "modern illnesses", now regularly talks about ADHD, dyspraxia, autism, trans-genderism etc. She understands that the more awareness and research done on these, will lead to an increas of the numbers of people discovering them and being diagnosed.

I can say the exact same about my daughter (27) and her group of friends.

Agree, its wonderful to see, as I had LGBTQ friends in the 80s who couldn't tell their families, and one very close friend who took his own life when ostracized and shamed by his whole family for being gay.

To think someone like Enoch Burke would describe him as an "abomination" just makes my blood boil.

And now trans people are being treated the same way.

My youngest daughter has a good friend in school who is trans teen and has being so good during the last year to her over being in and out of hospital having surgery and all her year in school treat they the same as every other student, young people are so clued in nowadays. Burke’s **** behaviour is more about him and his family, every time I think back to the stunt they pulled at that poor girl’s inquest in Mayo over her death during Covid says all that needs to know about that family. How in any one’s right mind was excepting that stunt and the family in grief over losing a child. What Burke needs is the judiciary to stand up and make an example of them in court for all the contempt.

Mammy Burke has turned her sights on Judge Maire Whelan, a friend of the gay Taoiseach Leo who appointed her to the bench, which Michael Martin described as a disgrace, and is trampling her son's Christian constitutional rights because he wont call a boy a girl. She wants Judge Whelan got rid of by Michael. The Burke PR video was filmed outside the 4 courts.

Keeping him outside the gate requires an expensive security operation as he attempts to enter the room he is still convinced is "his classroom" it he can

He disrupts the education of ~400 pupils when he does enter the premises, as he did frequently.

Also, it needs to be clear that contempt of court is punished. So in prison he stays, and should stay until he clears his contempt. If that's never, so be it.

They absolutely hate Labour and rant about other labour connections a lot.

Lots of the social change they fought against was pushed by Labour which would contribute to that.

The icing on the cake is that Wilson's barrister is former Labour TD and Senator Alex White.

Are you proposing the state forcefully provides cult deprogramming here?

He is in contempt of court, so needs to stay in prison until he clears it - that's the only matter here.

What about the young LGBTQ students who have to enter and leave the school every day, passing by this bigot who stands at the gate of their school, objecting to their very existance?

Don't forget, this is a man who not only refuses to follow court orders, but refuses to acknowledge his students' rights under the Equal Status Acts. He also claims homosexuality to be an abomination and has linked it paedophilia. He has harassed LGBTQ politicians in the past, including Katherine Zappone (whom he accused of approving of witchcraft) and Senator David Norris.

So no, this man is not gormless eejit standing on the side of the road, and he is not harmless. He and his family have thrown thousands of euros into their various campaigns against rights for LGBTQ people since 2010.

And again, the only reason he is in prison now, is because of his refusal to follow a High Court injunction telling him to stay away from the school. He could walk free tomorrow, if he agreed to follow that.

The Court hasn't ordered him to do anything else, and this is not because of his beliefs, but his actions.

As for his mammy issues, he is a grown man in his mid 30s. He went to college. He has earned several degrees. He lived away from his family home for the years he was teaching in WHS. The age were he could continue to use his parents influence as an excuse for his behaviour, passed a long time ago.

There was an item on This Week today with some interesting comments from Prof. O'Connell.

The level of personalised attacks he has made on various people make him a bad person.

Your last line falls back on the absolute untruth that he is in prison because of his objections to "transgenderism". That has nothing to do with it, and if you believe it does your are basing your entire viewpoint on a lie.

You're missing the point.

Nobody should go to prison because they don't agree with someone being gay because of some religious belief they acquired through their parents.

If a man in his thirties can’t think freely for himself and as you say Acquired by his parents, and you think nobody like him should go to prison for all the shite they have caused in court, the mistake that has being made with him he should be in the open end of prison and get a little bit of real life. By the way which one of the Burkes have we got tonight.