Orange is the new Burke

A video? Do you think any student was gonna be stupid enough in the middle of church to take out their phone and even if they did upload that video online?

Lad they might as well just ask the principal to suspend them on the spot.

You don’t have teenagers, do you.

nice way to ignore the important part which was posting it online.

what is valuable about someone shouting at their boss? The Gardai would not use that because it would be considered by them to be a “civil matter”. If he started throwing punches, yes, perhaps they’d be more interested.

Posting it online for the world to see would absolutely cause war with employers. The same goes for posting a detailed transcript of what happened. Do you think the school are happy this is being reported in the media at all let alone to the degree it has been? But yet you’re trying to imply that the argument didn’t happen or didn’t happen a certain way in the absence of a video, a video which by all accounts, is none of our business.

The fact is it actually matters not one shred what any of us think of Enoch or indeed what happened. The people who need to see evidence of what happened have presumably seen it and therefore concluded the best course of action was termination of employment. I’m sure his general antics following the initial incident did not help.

Mind you for all we know Burke was terminated on the basis he refused to follow the schools policies on discrimination and inclusiveness etc. refusing to address a student as per their request & at the request of their parents is in violation of school policies.

In my workplace it’s a policy not to take money from the till for example, for any reason. So say I wanted to break a €50 note, I cannot (without permission) take five €10 notes and leave the €50 in place. I would be disciplined for doing so— potentially dismissed & that would be because I violated the policies surrounding use of the till. But if I wanted to I could shout all day how they only sacked me because I’m short sighted and they didn’t like my glasses.

That’s the crux of it, Enoch is babbling about religion this that or the other but the fact of the matter is he wouldn’t abide by the policies; which would have been clearly laid out in the contract of employment he signed and agreed to. If you fail to do so you will eventually be terminated. This is common in workplaces all across the country. His reasons for refusing to follow them are irrelevant. His behaviour in denying to follow the policies are a total irrelevance.

So what was said, what wasn’t said, who it was said to & whether or not there’s a video of it are absolutely not even relevant because what we do have on record and repeatedly so is an admission, from Enoch Burke, that he will not adhere to the policies of his workplace, per the contract he signed, this is unacceptable in any professional workplace, he has compounded his problem tenfold by behaving in such fashion as he has. He has ignored every avenue available to resolve the dispute amicably and has favoured to behave in a manner most unusual and completely unprofessionally.

He’s made an embarrassment of himself and made the schools business public needlessly. That’s not to mention the time and money he has cost the school, courts & of course you and I. But somehow there are people here who are sitting on the fence or outright defending Burke for being so righteous in this world of “woke radical lefties”. Burke is not full of righteous indignation he’s full of shite. He is using religion as an excuse to bully his way into having his own way. It’s failing miserably and he’s decided to then make everyone else’s life difficult because of it.

He’s a religious nut, no different to those loons in the states. At this stage whether he screamed in Niamh McShane’s face before giving her the Stone Cold Stunner or he sent her a bouquet of flowers with a letter attached respectfully explaining his stance on the subject is neither here nor there. He’s ignored school policies, made a mockery of the schools disciplinary procedures & wasted time and money to a sickening degree. He deserved to lose his job & my only hope at this stage is the Teachers Council has the good sense to remove him from the register.

He may not be dangerous insofar as a physical threat to anyone— but this man’s mind is poisoned and he should not be near children at this stage. The damage he’s caused to his own reputation alone will ensure one way or the other he won’t be teaching at any school worth a shite in future anyway.

Oh & if you seriously doubt he treated the principal poorly have a brief look back at his sister & the rest of their behaviour when she was sacked from Arthur Cox. In fact read the entire story and come tell me it’s not likely he behaved like a crack pot. The lot of them are mental. Why would Enoch be different.

Honestly some of yous need to give your heads a shake and wake up.

To be fair I think Enoch is going to find it hard to get another job.

Not as a teacher necessarily just in general.

Also, I wonder if the Burkes would have such obsessive defenders were their family name Conners… 🤔