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

What exactly do you mean by the “highest court in Europe” ? ECJ ? ECHR ? Some other august body ?

It’s very difficult to see the Irish courts granting him leave to go anywhere near the ECJ with this, and his self inflicted imprisonment for civil contempt would be most unlikely to pass the ECHR filtration process never mind getting anywhere near the Chamber let alone the Grand Chamber.

Again it isn't my opinion, The Law Reform Commission have written extensively about our archaic contempt laws and how they may be unconstitutional.

But make no mistake this lunatic will do anything to please his Mammy. Fast forward 10 years when he has spent 3000 days in prison without trial, do you think the higher courts will not have to test the case then?

He would be well within his rights.

He has had his day in court already. You can't be in contempt of court without having a court case so I can't see how "prison without trial" fits.

Well no, he clearly hasn't had a trial because he hasn't been charged with a criminal offence.

Jailing someone for contempt of court cannot be punitive.

It's the reason he keeps getting let out without having purged his contempt.

now now. No need to be disingenuous.

he also wants that the school to deny all non-binary and trans pupils, now and in the future, their right to self-identify and to be called by a name and pronouns of their choosing 

That’s what you said. I hadn’t heard that. And I’d like a link to where he is saying that.

and you cannot know for certain that it wasn’t some personal issue with this student. It is common knowledge that this student is not the first transgender student in WHS.

Burke is a big enough pantomime bad guy without adding to it. He’s a laughing stock amongst right minded people, but we don’t know why he has an issue with this particular students transgenderism. There’s no proof that he is demanding that the school never ever recognises a transgender student in the future.

Have you read up on the publicized history of the events at WHS between Burke and the former Principal, on how not alone was the request from the transgender former pupil to be addressed by use of pronouns passed to Burke by the principal, along with other members of the school staff but it seems there was also an exchange of emails between Burke and the principal on the issue, plus the approach he made to the principal at the school dinner event where he addressed her directly on the issue in front of the guests there, after which he had a heated discussion with one of the guests about the way he used the dinner event to raise the issue.

As far as I know. this was given in evidence at one or more of the high court hearings toward the start of the court becoming involved with Burke. I can be corrected on one point of the school dinner event if I'm wrong and that is that Burke was NOT one of those invited-to or attending the dinner. It seems he basically gate-crashed the dinner event to have it out with her there about his refusal to comply with the school management boards decision to recognize and agree with the transgender pupils request to be addressed by the pronouns they/them.

I had heard mention that there was another transgender student at the school prior to the row about the student at the heart of the row between Burke, the school and the courts. That does raise the question as to why there was no difference of opinion between Burke and the school about that transgender pupil, why was he so accepting of one and not the other given he's he's made the current situation revolve around his refusal to accept transgenderism across the board.

Two years and counting in jail is a severe penalty. (don't know why this is not appearing in the quote, Vanilla strikes again)

It's not a penalty. He has not been convicted or sentenced in relation to this. The only reason he was imprisoned was his refusal to purge his contempt of court. He should not have been let out until he did this. It was entirely obvious what would happen.

A school is not remotely comparable to a department store and some creep hanging around and entering a school when they have no business being there is not remotely comparable to an industrial dispute.

good on him!