Orange is the new Burke

An affidavit can’t be invalidated by a newspaper article, I more meant that it wasn’t the best to talk to the paper while all this is going on.

He's been jailed five times now, surely the school have grounds to sack him and end this farce?

If you were garda vetted and had half the convictions he has, you wouldn't be allowed next or near a work environment involving children.

exactly this, I don’t understand how laid back the attitude has been to him being able to enter a School and remain there for days on end . Any other country where someone refuses to leave a location with kids would be dragged out by the cops. Schools are not public places. I know any schools near me wouldn’t allow it to happen.
It’s crazy to think he feels this behaviour is normal. I said it before if I had kids going to that school and he was a risk to them or causing issues he would be dragged out and I think most parents would feel the same way

It's Enoch tying it up in knots, appealing anything he can think of in relation to the appeals panel to delay the day he is actually considered fired and stops being paid (albeit he doesn't get that money anymore)

It's almost vanishly rare to come across someone so willing to use absolutely every angle to delay, disrupt and complicate proceedings.

They say hard cases make bad law.. this might be one of those situations, very lard to legislate for people like this.

Hopefully he is running out of road in anyway.

It's probably because he keeps dragging in the "my constitutional rights are being infringed" rubbish and no one [except him] wants to have denial of religious rights arguments being dragged through the courts again.

I agree with you, it's a disgrace that he is able to keep dragging an industrial disagreement through the courts on his false claims that his religious rights are being denied him by the make-up of the panel membership. Change the rules around what can be mentioned or listed as grounds for appealing an employment issue to exclude what is best left to the four courts; allegations of deprivation of constitutional rights.

What more can you do. Getting on for two years in prison and over two hundred thousand in penalties.

There's lots of repeat offenders that spend most of their lives in prison. In this case it's futile and pointless,but not unusual.

I understand that the situation between Wilsons School and Enoch is a civil one. But, i thought that when a judge gave you an order and it's disobeyed then it becomes a criminal disobedience and the imprisonment is a sentence and so is a criminal offence. So why has Enoch not got a criminal conviction? Am I missing something?

He hasn't committed a criminal act, yet.

With the best will in the world, they aren't going to section him for contempt.

Although a way should be found to.

Can the judge not give him say a 12 months sentence? His continued defiance (and short incarcerations) is incredibly unfair on the school.

You might try the internet for a more sure answer but as it's for a civil offence involving direct contempt of court: ignoring it's order and then telling it that it's wrong, he's in effect tying the courts hands on its response. The court has given him release twice now in the hope that he'll change his approach to how the law works without a change by him.

That's what baffles me too.

His argument is that he turns up every day to teach but if he's dismissed, he will have no timetable and no classes allocated to him. Who does he think he will be going teaching every day he turns up?

Noticing a good drop off of support for him online too, and a lot of people are correcting others who don't know the real facts of why he's in jail. Also, a lot of people are really seeing what a horrible, lying, hateful individual he actually is.