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

They have from the start really. They agree with his stance re the transgenderism, but not with his flaunting the laws of the land and the courts.

Article from the Irish Times abot how much has been spent by the burke family to promote their facebook posts.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025/03/16/burke-family-pays-facebook-to-promote-its-video-of-their-washington-dc-protest/?

just reflecting on the burkes family in general - they’re all using the same MO- finding an “issue” and then essentially committing career harakiri.

Enoch, Ammi and Simeon have all struggled in their employments - what’s motivating this? Is it the mother? Do the burkes hold a family conference and then decide what hill to host career death?

I just find it extraordinary - the mother does definitely lead out in the mad pathetic public protests- her offspring stand respectfully a foot or two behind her - she’s definitely the one in charge.

She’s raised a family of very academically successful young men and women - and then appears to want them not to participate in mainstream Irish society - and her sons and daughters willingly obey her. It’s bizarre

spending somewhere between €7.5-9k a year on Facebook ads. You’d love to know where it’s coming from!

You missed Jemima, and her antics.

Arthur Cox must be so relieved they got shot of Ammi when they did.

As she had to pay the legal costs of her WRC foray, there'd be little left for Facebook.

They have to eat though, and they must spend a fortune on diesel with all the trips to the school and to Dublin.

yeah it just seems like no matter how you look at them they appear to be spending money they couldn’t possibly have.

Between Enoch’s commute to the school 5 days a week, travelling to America, Facebook ads and of course running the bookshop which I can’t envision makes major money you’d wonder are they running blindly towards bankruptcy.

I don’t think they’re stupid enough to do such a thing but at the same time they are far more intelligent than any of their actions would lean towards demonstrating. I genuinely do wonder if that’s the end game here.

They also are paying for bots to fill up the comment section in their YouTube videos too. If you scroll down through comments on their videos - which are 99% blindingly effusive towards everything that the Burke's do - you'll notice that the majority of comments are being left by users with the same basic format to their username: firstname, lastname, random four digit number again and again.

You may well be right.

I didn't realise that the Burke's are avid users of paid social media -

Paywalled -

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/enoch-burkes-family-spent-thousands-on-online-ads-with-facebook-acting-as-their-21st-century-pulpit/a1283294311.html

Paywall removed -

https://archive.is/BCyMI

From the article -

"Facebook is the Burke family’s 21st-century pulpit. According to Meta’s ad library, Josiah has paid €28,171 to Meta for posting 77 ads under the category “social issues, elections or politics” on Facebook from April 2019 to last Wednesday (March 12).

For a family whose modus operandi is to turn up uninvited at events, usually to heckle politicians and public figures, many of the ads capture Burke family members’ chaotic confrontations.They include videos of them heckling various public figures. Josiah paid “€400 to €499” to post a clip of family members confronting attorney general Rossa ­ Fanning in February for “stripping” ­teacher Enoch of his “livelihood”. The ad featured on 170,000 to 200,000 screens.The ads don’t always last. According to the ad library, Josiah paid €600 to €699 earlier this month for an ad that ran for five days on Facebook before it was removed on grounds of “disinformation”. By then, it had made 200,000 to 250,000 impressions."

"Nearly €30,000 – or about €5,000 a year – is a significant sum to drop on a social media campaign.But as the Burkes’ Washington odyssey has shown, the family’s evangelical religious activism is a carefully orchestrated, social-media-driven operation — with ambitions to go global."

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Look at the smirk of the mother Martina Burke in this image she clearly enjoys the whole thing it is an evangelical "hobby"? Instead of gardening/bingo?

She seems to be the clear driver of the whole thing. I am starting to think it should be the "mammy" that is targeted not Enoch.

There's a thought provoking article in the Indo today about them by Eilish o Hanlon.

It makes the point among others that if they were fighting against the establishment for some cause which later becomes mainstream, that they'd be lauded as heroes, like Nell McCafferty. It's mainly that their cause is lost and that society disagrees with them that so much ire lands on their heads.

Eilis O’Hanlon: Society needs people like the Burke family, who don’t give a hoot what people think of them

https://www.independent.ie/opinion/eilis-ohanlon-society-needs-people-like-the-burke-family-who-dont-give-a-hoot-what-people-think-of-them/a278648657.html

This is like saying society needs more segregationists… Think Eilís is just seeing a fellow contrarian .

Why does society need people that think the law doesn't apply to them?

But they behaved like this prior to any jail time. They used have the incredibly homophobic and nasty websites about David Norris and Katherine Zappone. They ended up banned from NUIG societies, they used hand out pamphlets equating homosexuality and paedophilia.

In February 2022 they had to be removed from a public inquest into the death of a teenager due to the COVID-19, the reason they were removed was because they were actively upsetting the family of the teenager. So if anything, they've always been handled with kid gloves and their treatment of others has always been pretty atrocious. They're pretty horrible people and have been for a long time.