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ER Editor: This is a continuation of the story from early September when high school teacher Enoch Burke was jailed for the third time after showing up for work. He had previously refused to alter his speech to accommodate a transgender student who wanted specific pronouns using. For that he was barred from the school, which he also refused to abide by, and was sacked. Instead, he regularly showed up for work until the school got an injunction against him and had him arrested for refusing to obey the injunction. See —
Irish Teacher Enoch Burke has been arrested outside Wilson’s Hospital School [VIDEO]
From our understanding of the case, Burke wants the grounds for his dismissal from the school heard and adjudicated on from a constitutional standpoint. Instead, it’s been dealt with by the court as simply a matter of his refusing to abide by the court injunction to stay away from the school. Burke maintains he has a legal right to still be in the school doing his job.
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This is Burke’s most recent tweet about the situation from two days ago —
BREAKING: JUDGE SENDS ENOCH BURKE BACK TO PRISON – IMPLIES CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS 12 HAVE A “RIGHT” TO “TRANSITION” TO ANOTHER GENDER
Enoch Burke was sent back to Mountjoy Prison today after refusing to bow to transgenderism.
He has to date spent over 442 days in jail after… pic.twitter.com/zO3ZroxBPS
— Enoch Burke (@EnochBurke) October 11, 2024
Irish teacher Enoch Burke is ordered to stay in prison following a dispute between him and the then-principal of the school over using “they/them” pronouns for a student.
The incident took place in 2022 and Burke has now spent more than 400 days in prison! pic.twitter.com/qGmOlvjLzu
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) October 11, 2024
BREAKING: Christian teacher Enoch Burke has been sent back to prison in Ireland after he refused to use a student’s preferred pronouns (they/them).
Burke has already spent 442 days in jail for opposing transgender ideology.
The Woke Mind Virus is destroying the West. pic.twitter.com/2LQgUJZKot
— Cillian (@CilComLFC) October 11, 2024
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High Court orders continued imprisonment of Enoch Burke
The High Court has ordered the continued imprisonment of secondary school teacher, Enoch Burke, after he again refused to agree to abide by a court order.
Mr Burke was imprisoned for the third time last month, for failing to obey an injunction granted last year that ordered him to stay away from Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath.
He was sacked from the school in January 2023.
But he has appealed the dismissal and remains on full pay pending the hearing of that appeal.
He was first suspended in August 2022, following a dispute between him and the then-principal of the school over using “they/them” pronouns for a student.
Mr Burke said he could not do this because of his religious beliefs.
The court has heard that he raised the matter publicly at a religious service where he confronted the principal, Niamh McShane, about the issue.
He has repeatedly attended at the school despite being suspended and subsequently sacked.
The school has described this as “stressful” and disruptive for staff and students.
Mr Burke maintained that he was in prison because of his religious beliefs.
However, during a short but heated hearing this morning, Mr Justice David Nolan put it to him that he was in prison because he would not abide by a court order.
He was before the court to give him an opportunity to purge his contempt and be released from jail by agreeing to abide by the order.
Mr Burke said the High Court had “from the beginning” misconstrued the basis for the disciplinary action taken against him.
He told the court the action had been taken because of his Christian beliefs against “transgenderism”, set out “in the book of Genesis” and in the words of “our lord Jesus Christ”.
Mr Burke said the basis of the disciplinary proceedings was clear from the report of Ms McShane to the school’s board of management and he claimed the court injunctions had been granted without any analysis of the report.
Judge Nolan said he was in court for one reason and there was only one issue before him – whether or not Mr Burke would purge his contempt.
The judge told Mr Burke he did not want him to be in prison, and “the way to get out of prison” was to tell the court he would abide by the order to stay away from the school.
Judge Nolan asked Mr Burke on ten occasions whether he would abide by the order. He told him: “I would like you to say yes, and then I will let you out of jail.” He said Mr Burke’s job was to answer the question, while Mr Burke told the judge his job was to uphold the Constitution.
During the hearing, Mr Burke’s mother, Martina, who was in court along with her husband, Sean, daughter, Ammi and son, Isaac, made several comments, leading the judge to ask Mr Burke if he was “being controlled by someone else”.
Members of the Burke family accused the judge of being controlled, saying he was a “political actor, upholding a political decision made by a political court, to force teachers to accept transgenderism without any legal authority”.
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