Orange is the new Burke

So did the appeal actually go ahead today? If it did, is there a timeframe on a verdict?

At this stage does anybody still believe that the Burke objective is to have their demands met? As opposed to causing disruption and getting attention?

The Panel can have whoever they want.

Where the Panel meets for the purpose of taking oral evidence or hearing oral submissions the following are entitled to be present;

i the teacher concerned

ii any person/s in accordance with paragraph 11 above who is entitled to makesubmissions on behalf of the teacher concerned

iii The chair of the board of management and a serving member of the Board, or Principal, designated to assist the Chair of the Board of Management

iv any other person whom the Panel agrees may be present

The teacher making the appeal is entitled, if he or she wishes, to make oral submissions to the Panel either in person or through a representative, normally a serving teacher, a wholetime official/s of the union holding recognition for his or her grade or other such person as the Panel agrees may be present for that purpose.

He was then allowed back into the room - but was removed again when he started to interrupt proceedings.

His brother Isaac and mother Martina were also in the room during the incident - and they were then escorted out by gardai.

Mammy couldn't help herself of course.

Hopefully if EB goes to law over the lawyers presence, it will be put at the top of the calendar and thrown out promptly as having no relevance in law. Ditto for any appeal he submits on that last court ruling. With a bit of luck the Burke DAP hearing 3 will appear at any appeal EB makes and behave the same way before whichever Justice, and subsequent Justices, sit in judgement on the appeals.

I am delighted that EB was provided the freedom by Mr Justice O'Connell to act up live at the DAP hearing and that his family fell for the temptation to act up in front of the DAP panel publicly, providing their own recording of their activities. It was good that the DAP hearing was not "in camera". It means they might go for another act-up in an actual appeals courtroom and provide a good reason for another criminal contempt conviction and prison time for them, maye even a first for EB if he is present in court at the time.

After all this time, why are the panel still acting the eejit? They should know that the cult will pounce on absolutely anything that seems even remotely out of the ordinary. It's like the whole thing is bieng handled by some gormless dope within the department somewhere.

I got a LOL out of this.

From The Journal.ie….

As of late April 2026, there is no fixed, public deadline for the third Disciplinary Appeal Panel (DAP) to issue its final recommendation to Wilson's Hospital School following the chaotic conclusion of the hearing on April 24, 2026. [1, 2, 3]Key details regarding the current status:

• Hearing Breakdown: The third iteration of the DAP hearing, held in Athlone, ended prematurely on April 24, 2026, after Enoch Burke was removed by prison officers following repeated interruptions regarding the presence of the school’s legal team.
• Process Status: The panel, consisting of an independent chair and representatives, heard the school’s case, but Mr. Burke was not present for the final segments.
• Next Steps: The panel will now deliberate on the evidence and points raised before issuing a final recommendation to the school's Board of Management, which will then decide to uphold, overturn, or modify the dismissal. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]

The hearing was allowed to proceed after Mr. Justice Micheál O'Connell refused an injunction to halt it on April 23, 2026, concluding that previous delays were partly caused by the applicant. [1, 2, 3]

Oh, i think everybody knows that, and we're in the "give him enough rope" phase of things now.

because over there they’d just be another family trolling for donations and subscriptions. Here they’ve no competition

Here they see themselves as big fish. Even if its a small pond. In texas they would be nobodies in a huge ocean of other nobodies. And wouldnt get away woth their dramatics

If, as I suspect, their ultimate objective is to be disruptive and annoying to regular society as part of their game of playing the victim, a move to somewhere where their behaviour is normalised is not something they'd be interested in.

I was more thinking for their law practice. They are unemployable in Ireland

I can't see them in either state but definitely not California. Though landing them into L.A. or San Francisco would be worth watching for an hour or so.

As others have said there'd be nothing novel about them in the U.S.