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

According to an Extra.ie report WHS will seek to have Enoch Burke arrested if the disrupts the state exams in June.

Enoch Burke’s former school has said it will apply for him to be sent back to prison if he disrupts the State exams in June, or turns up on school grounds again next term.

However, the court heard that despite being ordered to stay away, he has gone back to the school for all bar two days since March 7. The two days he has missed were due to a court appearance, and a teacher training day, the court heard. That was the date a receiver was appointed to collect almost €80,000 in fines Mr Burke owes the State for his contempt of the court order not to trespass at the school.

In a sworn statement, the school’s acting principal John Galligan told the court that Wilson’s would exercise as much legal restraint as possible in relation to Mr Burke, but that it would only do so within reason as he continued to ‘flout’ court orders.

He said that if Mr Burke escalated his disruption during the 30 days left in the current year, or disrupts State exams in June, or the next academic year, the board of the school will take action to prevent him from doing so ‘with great reluctance’.

He said this action would include an application for Mr Burke’s committal to prison. Mr Galligan said he hoped Mr Burke would end his ‘protest’ at the school.

The court also heard €40,000 has been taken from Mr Burke’s bank account by the State in part payment of the fines he owes, and that €1,500 has so far been collected from his ongoing Department of Education salary.

Brian Kennedy, barrister for the Attorney General, made an application for his side’s legal costs yesterday, as did Rosemary Mallon for the school’s board of management.

Asked for his response, Mr Burke said he was in court for circumstances which were not of his making, and alleged ‘lies’ were being told.

He said his decision to turn up at the school was ‘not a protest’ and claimed he had been interrupted during his last appearance before the court. Judge Nolan asked him to focus ‘entirely on the issue of costs’, and reminded him he was still trespassing on school premises. Mr Burke shouted over him, claiming he had a right under the Constitution to practise his religion. The judge said: ‘This is not a soap box. You know all about unruly schoolboys, and you’re acting like an unruly schoolboy.’

As the judge began to make his costs order, he was interrupted by Mr Burke’s sister Ammi and mother Martina. Ammi told the judge Enoch had ‘a constitutional right to his beliefs’, before Judge Nolan ordered gardaí to remove her from the courtroom. Martina Burke repeatedly shouted that the judge was basing his judgment ‘on lies’, before she was also removed by gardaí. A third person stood up holding a sign and demanded to be allowed to address the court, before they were also removed.

It seems his actual trespass on the school grounds is of the Civil Offence type, not the Criminal Offence type. The onus is on the school as it's the offended party.

The repeated ignoring by him of the permanent injunction not to trespass is a whole other ball game as the state is the offended against party there. It seems better dealt with by way of a fine repaying the state for the money it has spent on him, bleeding him dry of his funds it is made aware of.

Mammy Burke has been doing grinds for decades, very successful too. But she clearly is a good teacher, all her kids are high academic achievers. Pity she filled their heads with nonsense too

It was summed up in Ammi's dealings with Arthur Cox and the WRC; they couldn't fault her professional knowledge but she had no idea how to work in a cohesive office environment.

One suspects that was exactly Martina Burke's intention when she decided to keep them away from other children.

One should [maybe] determine that the grinds are in the family home and not at the Burke's home or chosen venue, to ensure the education complies with what the student needs and not what the Burkes might [literally] have in mind.

Yes. In addition to the order directing B of I to pay the €40,000 from Burke's account, the court also appointed a receiver over Burke's Dept of Education salary. So I think that the ongoing position is that Burke's salary never makes it into his account; it goes straight to the receiver.

The Bank has also been ordered to give the receiver details of any other accounts that Burke has, and of transactions on those accounts, so if Burke does have other sources of income the receiver may detect them and seek further court orders to allow him to seize that income also.

No doubt someone will be along shortly to spin that as "yet another outrageous public sector perk" 😝

So… the exchequer is finally starting to recover Enoch's fines.. using money coming from.. yep the exchequer 🙄

Any chance he'll be on the hook for a massive salary overpayment if when his sacking is upheld? Salary should have been ceased as of the date of his sacking. It's quite bizarre that it was not and it gives him a massive incentive to continue to delay and spin out his appeal

deport Irish citizens to a country they’ve nothing to do with?

yeah no that’s how you do it now

Total aside- how can you get 27?

Every 4 weeks would be 13 times so double that is 26..

how can you have an extra two weeks pay? My heads melted by that. Please explain.

He was sacked in Jan 23 but he has appealed that. https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41053607.html

He has strung it along for over 2 years now…

Knows how to play the system.

You could have an extra pay day in a calendar year.

Say your first pay day is January 1st - you would have a 14th pay day on December 31st. No free money though.

The €1,500 will be what’s left after he is paid a living allowance. In situations like this the court will determine how much of his income he should receive in order to pay his necessary living expenses and will “confiscate” the balance.

If paid an annual salary, it has to be divided by 27, or else you get paid more - the previous and the next year both have 26 pay days, there is never a 25 to even things out.

When I was paid fortnightly I had an annual salary and it was divided by 26, there was no day or hour calculation involved. If I'd been there in the one year in eleven there were 27, it'd have been divided by 27 - they weren't going to give me a once off bonus.

This applies with monthly salaries too, you effectively get paid more per day in the 30 and 28/29 day months.