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Irish teacher Enoch Burke may face losing his salary to pay fines for breaching a court order, not for refusing to use a transgender student’s pronouns, contrary to online claims.
In May 2022, Enoch Burke - who taught History and German - told the headteacher at his school in County Westmeath, Ireland, that his Christian beliefs meant he 'opposed transgenderism'.
Irish teacher Enoch Burke and his sister, Ammi Burke, arrive at the High Court in Dublin for the legal case against Wilson's Hospital School on March 28, 2023.
Enoch Burke's bank account will be emptied to pay a portion of the more than €79k in contempt of court fines he owes. Kerry O'Shea . @kerry_oshea. Mar 25, 2025.
Enoch Burke: Judges review prison term for Irish teacher who would not use trans pupil's pronouns and was jailed when he refused to stay away from his old school.
February 10, 2023: Enoch Burke and Ammi Burke leaving the Four Courts in Dublin. The siblings were removed from a courtroom by Gardai after refusing an order by the Judge to leave the proceedings.
M ore than €40,000 has been seized from Enoch Burke's bank account on foot of High Court orders enforcing the payment of thousands of euros in fines owed by the schoolteacher, the court has heard.
Enoch Burke has been at the centre of a trans right row in Ireland for over two years now - but he's not the only member of his family facing endless legal woes. In May 2022, ...
Enoch Burke will be fined €1,400 every time he goes to his former place of work; Read More: How Enoch Burke's family are facing their own legal woes ...
Enoch Burke's family, who have travelled to Washington DC, were seen holding placards outside the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum on Pennsylvania Avenue ...
Enoch Burke was bundled into a Garda van outside the school gates yesterday; His family have released clips of his arrest - and his father's condemnation of it ...
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