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

Enoch will be 80+ and still paying off his fines in 2070

If he is giving the wages to someone else in the family there will, I presume, be a tax liability for the recipient??

Gifts you receive up to the value of €3,000 from any person in a calendar year are exempt from Capital Acquisitions Tax (CAT). This means that you may take a gift from several people:

• in the same calendar year
• and
• the first €3,000 from each disponer is exempt from CAT.  

Gifts of €3,000, as outlined above, are not taken into account in computing tax and are not included for aggregation purposes. 

This small gift exemption applies only to gifts and not to inheritances.

https://www.revenue.ie/en/gains-gifts-and-inheritance/cat-exemptions/small-gift-exemption/index.aspx

Essentially he could hand over his monthly salary to a different sibling/parent every month and they would have no tax liability - rinse and repeat the following year

Well at least in this sort of weather there's less to be thinking about

Of course they are, that's why the post videos to Youtube

does he live at home with his parents?

hope the mammy knitted him a hat for this weather…

That in itself tells a story. I reckon the school would be better off doing nothing for about 2 week. Let him off, the interest in him will wane, then have him 'lifted' and back to The 'Joy.

"I would hope our legal system is using every power available to retrieve these fines, or part of them"

I havent read anywhere how the justice system is going after the due fines. But funny, when I refused to pay a parking fine a couple of years ago as I was appealing it, I got a letter telling me my fine had doubled as the 28 day due date had passed and I was going to get a court summons within a week if I did not pay end, and the letter reminded me that if I was found guilty of not paying the fine, I would have a criminal conviction. Yes, for a flippin parking fine. I paid it to avoid all that sh*te. That was a pissy fine of less than €100. E.Burke's fine is up to what now ? Well over €10,000 at this stage right ? Where's the fairness here? Why isnt this being chased up ?

Someone further up the thread mentioned the courts may set a new legal precedent to deal with the Burkes. That's the last thing the courts will do. If they break with precedent, it will open up a whole new and possibly valid avenue of appeals for them. The last thing they want is give them a win.

TBF the potential for Enoch and his antics were flagged decades ago.

Our contempt laws are long past due being put on a statutory footing.

This could actually get it done.

When he was working there, how was he travelling to work and back?

I'd say he was great craic as a house mate 🙄

Or possibly staff quarters as part of the boarding side of WHS.

The school need to advertise his presence to tourists and charge admission to see him.Could be a real money spinner for them.

Public, was private but changed some time ago.

Boarding costs money but day pupils are free.

Private schools get significant part payment of teachers salaries anyway.