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Orange is the new Burke

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,350 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    I could be getting into deep water here but if all the kids were home schooled by Mrs Burke Snr, they'd probably have the same outlook on life, like the Phelps (though Dad rebelled in the end).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,286 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    I wonder did the Burkes have any involvement with this nutty leaflet from 2015.

    sounds of sodomy.jpg

    Well now we know what S.O.S. in that Abba song really stands for! Sounds of Sodomy!

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,588 ✭✭✭Squeeonline


    If I ever start a death metal band, I will call it Sounds of Sodomy.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,742 ✭✭✭TheIrishGrover


    Don't like that new Simon And Garfunkel comeback album



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,408 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    I'd love to see a Louis Theroux style documentary about them. Just to see what it's like inside the cult compound house.



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  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 45,551 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    “Well now we know what S.O.S. in that Abba song really stands for! Sounds of Sodomy!”

    Ah feic off, you’ve just killed a piece of my childhood 😀



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    How do you explain reaching adulthood, going to college and still this resounding loyalty no less, the continued bizzare protesting and ridiculous public displays?
    I mean, this hold over them as a result of their nurture - must be vice like - many of them have thrown away their years of qualifications and education and future employment prospects for what exactly?

    I wonder will even one of them wake up some day and have some sort of realisation of just how comical and tragic their lives have become.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,318 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Some of the Phelps kids managed it so there is always hope.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,286 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Satan's secret messages are everywhere. You just have to know how to correctly interpret the signals 😉

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 41,286 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Seems some of the Burkes have too, well at least they don't participate in the public freakouts

    I'm partial to your abracadabra
    I'm raptured by the joy of it all



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,350 ✭✭✭✭aloyisious


    I dont. The Burkes are a human anomaly.

    The family thought of the day was probably to walk to the other side of the street whenever they were approached by any local on the basis that the local was probably likely to be RC, given the make-up of the nation's population back then.

    Then there were the stats that said every 1 in 6 to 1 in ten children was likely to be gay (that word covering the LGBT grouping) back then as a lot of people weren't acceptive of the 4 letter-grouping. Imagine how one would feel, after a lifetime (to that point in their life) of being brought up in a religiously closeted life with 9 other children, if one realised around the age of puberty, that the feeling one has for one of your kin or for another child outside the family is not what Mum and Dad had been schooling you to believe was God's way, but instead was what they had told you would lead one to hell and damnation as a sodomite.

    I'm not saying the 1 in 6 to 1 in 10 stats rule did apply to the Burke family children at all but on the way one's inclination is bound up with the way one's genes are sorted by nature and on the basis of percentages, it could be quite probable that the Burke family might have a child amongst it who doesn't fit in with how the parents believed God intended things to go.

    Getting one's head around the sudden wakening would be hard enough when it came to handling day to day relationships which occur in schools etc but to have to manage them in a family like the Burkes would be horrible. Either the closet door was firmly shut or there would be an eruption of emotions the bible could not shun away.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,156 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    I have occasionally wondered about that. Think there’s quite a few of them and it seems to be the same 5 or so destroying their lives and throwing away their careers for mammy



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 12,207 ✭✭✭✭J Mysterio


    "Family members are parents Sean and Martina Burke and their ten children: Ammi, Elijah, Enoch, Esther, Isaac, Jemima, Josiah, Keren, Kezia and Simeon."

    Is it just Ammi, Enoch, Isaac, Josiah, and Simeon that are constantly in the news?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    Not quite - Kezia was in the public eye for a while


    https://amp.rte.ie/amp/1256496/

    Article here about them all - relatively little is known about Esther and Keren Burke.


    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14209411/amp/Firebrand-family-Irish-gender-row-teacher-Enoch-Burke-refused-call-boy-girl-one-10-siblings-no-stranger-legal-battles-strident-views.html



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,968 ✭✭✭adaminho


    From that article

    Enoch Burke said he was traumatised, humiliated and deeply fearful. He said the "invective, projectiles" and selfies taken by students continued for an hour-and-a-half.

    So I see he has changed his mind about selfies with students! Maybe there's hope for him yet.



  • Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 45,551 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Maybe it is just schoolkids that he doesn't mind photos with?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭Hibernicis


    Elijah, who read economics and law in the University of Galway, ran for President of UG SU this year. He was instrumental in doubling the turnout (up from 2,174 total poll in 2024 to 4,460 in 2025). Unfortunately for Elijah the increase was largely accounted for by those intent on blocking him and avoiding the embarrassment of having one of his clan representing them. His two opponents got 87% between them, Maisie Hall, the winner, getting 75% on the first count. He has some beef about a referendum to removing gender specific pronouns (surprise surprise) and also campaigned on bringing back open debate and free speech (!), some nonsense about bringing back disposable paper coffee cups and there was some drama about him being attacked when a fellow student objected to having a camera shoved in his face and knocked it to the ground. His studies included law so he may well reappear in public in the future. Incidentally, as the youngest member of the clan, his departure from UG may spell the end of a miserable decades long association between that august academic establishment and the Burke clan, one that the university will be more than happy to see the curtain come down on. 

    Jemima has had a few outings. She did a course in journalism and turned up at Tony Holohan's 2020 NPHET/Covid press conferences allegedly representing the Western News (a long defunct publication which last appeared in 1926). Her "aggressive" questioning resulted in her microphone being turned off. Her behaviour also made the headlines in 2022 when she and some of the supporting family members were forcibly removed from a Coroner’s court and subsequently shrieked and screeched their way around the streets of Swinford resulting in more court drama over the subsequent three years and ending with a pyrrhic victory. Her behaviour and conduct generally could be compared to that of a number of prominent citizen journalists. 

    Kezia, as mentioned above by @Oscar_Madison also stuck her head above the parapet together with her siblings Enoch, Isaac and Ammi when all four of them were concurrently enrolled in long suffering NUIG/UG (2014 approx). They took a long drawn-out religious discrimination case (among a multitude of other "wrongs" they suffered) after all four of them were banned from all college societies when caught disseminating anti-gay propaganda which implicitly connected gay marriage to paedophilia and incest and doing some very odd accounting with the funds of the college’s Christian Union Society (said society had four members/officers, all of whom had the surname Burke). Presumably Kezia was drawn into all this by her siblings euphoric hatred at the time, but appears to have learned her lesson/wised-up and has kept a low profile ever since. 

    Esther and Keren appear to keep their heads down and their mouths shut. 

    So in summary, 8 of them (the 5 you listed plus Elijah, Jemima and Kezia) have at various times made total tits of themselves while the remaining 2 appear to have let the side down and shirked the limelight. To which we have to add the 2 parents, and while that obnoxious harridan Martina undoubtedly has the higher profile, Sean has willingly and ably displayed his obnoxious intolerance when the opportunity presented itself. And he did time in Mountjoy rather than sign a peace bond when convicted of assaulting a woman

    While much of their carry-on is justifiably ridiculed, some of their hate filled behaviour and rhetoric must have significant consequences for their targets, and whether the damage is intentional or consequential it is all disgusting, despicable and profoundly unChristian. They really are truly horrible people and a dreadful misrepresentation of anything that is good about the Christianity that they misguidedly claim to advocate for. 



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,078 ✭✭✭Ozymandius2011


    This isnt the American Bible Belt. This kind of protest does not elicit much public support here in my opinion. In the US this kind of thing is not uncommon though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    Some day they’ll pick the wrong person to shove a camera in their face and shout at- oh to be there to see that



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,793 ✭✭✭✭Oscar_Madison
    #MEGA MAKE EUROPE GREAT AGAIN


    you’re just a few pages away from writing the Burke biography - holy Old Testament that post must have taken some time 😀



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,156 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    for a fdd ad mily always moaning about their treatment at the hands of the law they sure do like do go legal with things.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,923 ✭✭✭blackwhite


    Jemima was working at an accountancy firm in Dublin 2-3 years ago, but as of 12 months ago was no longer there.
    Didn’t create any drama and no idea if she has gainful employment elsewhere now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,156 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    just saw another video. Had something in it about Charlie Kirk. The aul wan straight in about sodomy once again. It’s definitely her favourite subject. Loves the aul sodomy so she does.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,802 ✭✭✭randd1




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,802 ✭✭✭randd1


    The George would be more appropriate punishment.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,156 ✭✭✭✭salmocab




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,318 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    maybe she converted because she was sick of having kids?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 268 ✭✭kegg


    I see another brother,elijah, has been at the same craic at an event with Catherine Connolly in Galway. Interrupting proceedings asking what she thought about his brother 'in prison because he wouldn't endorse transgenderism'. Had to be escorted out by gardai. Nearly sure a different sister was filming too. I think that's six of the children now who like a bit of attention.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,134 ✭✭✭keeponhurling


    They seem to be in the media a bit less these days.

    Which is a good thing as they are only seeking attention.



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