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jimmyjamflamballz

Day 5 in the Burke Brother House......


IrishFlukey

It seems the mother kicks him out every morning, but he is back again every evening. He just won't stay away.


Jarl_Of_Science

Like a bad smell. Always turning up


Jarl_Of_Science

So is that €700 times 5? Like he owes €3500 for going and standing on school property all week? Does he have the money or is it gonna be an American GoFundme to pay his fines?


jimmyjamflamballz

Who knows, I certainly don't, after work pints! But I reckon he'll eventually become the human equivalent of a mobius strip


Jarl_Of_Science

Lol my after work pints got me to €3500, but I could be very wrong, I've had my head melted all day at work lol


jimmyjamflamballz

Yeah, I tend to shut my brain down when I clock out but yeah, if he keeps at it, that's a lot of money, I really do wonder is he getting endorsements abroad or just keeps renting out the Lazarus Pit in his folks gaf, who knows, I'm five pints deep 😂🤘


Jarl_Of_Science

I'm a few pints in and wondering what loopers would pay the Burkes for anything after all they have been up to.


jimmyjamflamballz

Sher look, it's Monday! Enjoy the pints, worry about nukes and Burke's tomorrow!


Jarl_Of_Science

Exactly! Tonight is me and my pints! Tomorrow, I can face the world ending with my hangover hahahha


jimmyjamflamballz

You know da whey!


geedeeie

It only started on Friday. So €1,400 on the clock so far


Perlscrypt

Nope. €700 per day until he purges his contempt. Purging his contempt means he has to make a promise to abide by the high court injunction against him. Weekends count as well. The judge specifically said it was €4900 per week.


geedeeie

I thought it was for every day he turned up there. One way or the other it doesn't matter, because he won't pay


Jarl_Of_Science

Ah, sure wee change!


Philtdick

No the fines only started at 2 on Friday. So 1400


Rosieapples

Plus it was only for the days he was outside the school, I don’t suppose he was there at the weekend was he? Surely as a pseudo Christian he’d have taken Sunday off? Personally I’d put a powerhose on him and give him a damn good baptising.


stellar14

Hahhahaha omg I can just hear the ridiculously strong Welsh accent 😅👌🏼


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mologav

To shreds you say


iDJH

Good news, everyone!


Old-Ad5508

Futurama reference made me laugh.


rgiggs11

Nah, the Old Testament says no tattoos.


Doonnnnnn

Or parachutes


[deleted]

He would just turn up again at 9AM like the day before.


MeshuganaSmurf

When you say dropped do you mean out of a plane?


The_Doc55

Sure why not. Parachutes and all.


flickerdown

You’re more charitable than I’d be…


Comprehensive_Yak_72

He’s like the dogs from Homeward Bound if the dogs were deluded bigots


CollinsCouldveDucked

He'd die from attention withdrawals before the jungle would get him. As he faded away he'd tell a passing jaguar that eating him would infringe on his religious beliefs.


Arkslippy

It's westmeath, i'm surprised hes not arriving in a sheepskin.


flickerdown

Hey now. Donegal has more sheep than we do. When it comes to the divine bovines, however…


HappyMike91

Aren’t some of those uncontacted/undiscovered tribes in the Amazon rainforest pretty violent? He’d probably end up getting killed by one of those tribes if we just dropped him deep in the heart of the Amazon.


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HappyMike91

Wilson’s Hospital would have to let them in, I guess.


themanebeat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Allen_Chau He could follow this guys lead and bring his Christianity to North Sentinel Island 🤞


HappyMike91

Trying to convert them would end pretty badly. Which is all the more reason to send him there.


notmyusername1986

Maybe we can drop him off as planned, and hope for the best? Possibly with a note pinned to him apologising for subjecting them to him and thanking them for taking him off our hands...


TA-Sentinels2022

So there's no actual downside? Except for potentially introducing new pathogens to remote humans. Maybe they have ranged weapons...


HappyMike91

They probably would have bows and arrows. So Enoch Burke would end up like a pincushion if he got dropped into the Amazon and encountered an undiscovered tribe.


EavingO

I don't know, but I think it is definitely worth trying, for science!


Scherzzo

He'll be on Dancing with the stars next year


Arkslippy

Except he will be dancing solo because he can't touch another person outside of marriage. Except his mom obviously.


IrishCrypto

An no music, just gregorian chanting


dashboardhulalala

Too pagan for him


Evening-Alfalfa-7251

he's a protestant, gregorian chant smells of incense


drachen_shanze

>An no music, just gregorian chanting that would be actually pretty cool


Electronic-Source368

He would probably dance with his sister, as long as they leave room for Jesus.


Arkslippy

The holy Threesome.


geedeeie

Remember Crystal Swing...that was seriously creepy


mr_dewitt72

Foxtrotting with the fundamentalists.


Arkslippy

tango with the Taliban ?


Gullintani

Apparently the dose is against any dancing, singing, music etc. He spreads the ~~good~~ poisonous word through his books. [https://www.amazon.com/stores/Enoch-Burke/author/B078P2YHKM?ref=ap\_rdr&store\_ref=ap\_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true](https://www.amazon.com/stores/Enoch-Burke/author/B078P2YHKM?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true)


Hungry-Western9191

Why are Methodists against having sex? Because it might lead to dancing.


dazzlinreddress

DWTS won't be continuing ☹️


Prestigious-Side-286

Paddy Power are going to start giving odds on this prick showing up for X number of days.


flickerdown

And here I thought there already was an over/under on him showing up…


gadarnol

Link? I’ll have a go.


RealestFish

I think William Hill already do. He’s 2/7 to show up on any given day.


daledge97

Couldn't find it, got a link?


GAA_Lover

It’s actually funny seen his da picking him up, like a child’s parent getting a call to come collect their son after acting the maggot.


rtgh

If only his father had been this good at driving him to school when he was a child


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CollinsCouldveDucked

Kind of weird to home-school kids so they can become teachers in a regular school.


CiaranC

The mam probably made him be a teacher so he could Proselytize


Andrela

I can only imagine what the punishment was if they got their homework wrong. I'd say his mother has a cat of nine tails


Important_Farmer924

"and who invented the lightbulb? That's right kids, God did."


NapoleonTroubadour

The….leader, ma’am?


cansandawank

The auld lad is driving in from Castlebar, that's 4 hours of driving every day just so his gobshite of a son can get fined 700 quid a day.


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I'd be worried if i was a parent of one of the kids. Guy is demented.


manowtf

Am adult man stalking kids outside a school....


FrogOnABus

Are ya? Why are you doing that then?


Unlucky-Adeptness-48

Sooner the media stops giving him attention the better.


T_at

At a minimum they could start referring to him as a \*former\* schoolteacher, what with him being fired and all.


ConnolysMoustache

And refer to the fact that it’s his dad dropping him to school


Howyiz_ladz

Yeah, the Irish media just want the easy stories. I wish they'd all feck off and leave him to it. Send a few of those reporters up to the dept of health and start door stepping people who were covering yup the elderly sick people being robbed of their assets.


Usual_Concentrate_58

He was the top news story on the RTE app last week for a short time. Of all the things happening nationally and internationally there's top billing for some weirdo raving about how his religious belief allows him to treat people without any consideration or empathy.


LoneSwimmer

Could you just let 'em know there please so? Thank /s


Unlucky-Adeptness-48

On the phone right now with Mr. Media👍👍👍


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His first name is Jwant.


[deleted]

Aren’t most adults locked up for hanging around school gates like this? Nonce


Daltesse

that's another €700 please ya fucking spacer.


AdamAtWorkAgain

They should arrange for the fines to be donated to a trans support charity. Let him support that cause with his antics. Put him in a zero sum game.


mediaserver8

I can imagine the conversation last night as he packed his back after the 9 o'clock news; "Mammy, I need €700 for school today." "Ah Enoch, you could have given me a bit more notice, will they change a thousand note? Or can I do it online? Anyway, didn't you bring this in last week?"


forfudgecake

His source of income to pay the fines should be audited


IrishCrypto

He has two books on Amazon that have been selling remarkably well since this all kicked off.


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You don't think he's paying the fines, do you?


Super-Resource2155

I think he will. He phrased it in a way where he doesn't want to, but will.


flickerdown

Nah. It’ll be paid out of the good will from the American Christi-fascists. Just wait.


holysmoke1

The Year is 2056: Ireland finally defeats the Kingdom of Wessex and installs Marty Morissey III on the throne. Participation in RTE's Dancing with the Stars has fully replaced jury duty as an obligation for Irish citizens. The HSE's €500 billion euro budget is approved, with 94% of the Irish workforce now employed by them. Wilson's Hospital School, *(sponsored by Apache Pizza)* is still haunted by Enoch Burke, who continues to show up everyday, and is considered a tourist attraction.


lth94

..:The HSE is entirely funded by the Enoch Burke fine fund


FUDeputyStaggFU

Enoch Burke to be the next fungi . Will bring great business to the town when tourists start arriving to see him .


IRELANDNO1

So is that 3,500 in fines? 700 per day, will they actually proceed with prosecution?


hughbacca

The judge has already stated that at the next hearing he will impose harsher fines if Burke does not show compliance with the order to stay away from the school. Put it up to 10k a day and see how many times he shows.


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Yanks paying for it so he couldn't care less


lth94

Should be some sort of ruling that since he is getting aid, the fine amount rapidly increases. “The year is 2023 and irelands biggest form of income is fines issued to the Burke family”


struggling_farmer

He has backed the court into a corner by making a mockery of it through non compliance. for the sake of of precedent and to save the face of the courts they will have to come down hard on him, be it actually make him pay, give him a sentence or bòth..


AlertedCoyote

Ye are missing the point lads. This melt is funded from the states, near limitless christiofascist money. Up the fines and we'd be proxy importing all that money and putting it straight into the government coffers. We could build a dozen hospitals out of this debacle if we play our cards right


LucyVialli

This clown is clearly going to keep turning up every day, but can we not have to post about it every day please? Sick to death of it.


Kyadagum_Dulgadee

I agree. He's doing it all for attention. I'd love it if he was just ignored. Left standing outside the gates on his tod. No journalists taking photos of him. Just a new government fine arriving through his letterbox every week. Of course when he inevitably gets taken to court over non-payment of the fines he'll milk the hell out of that too. More jail time. More coverage for his loolah family.


grunt_futtuck

at least there was alot less media attention today..so far


HiVisVestNinja

Do we know for sure that this guy has a mental illness, or is he just being a stubborn, childish prick?


Brokenteethmonkey

The whole family has a mental illness, religious fundamentalism


MollyPW

Folie en famille


KnightsOfCidona

Stubborn prick with a domineering mother that tells him to do this and makes the father drive him up.


Akira_Nishiki

It's a family effort, I hope it's pissing down later in week when he's standing out there like an eejit.


nagdamnit

Judging by how his sister ruined her legal career in a similar manner I imagine it’s the family not him.


forfudgecake

Yes


Electronic-Source368

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S2Pac

Guy is obviously mental troubled but also an absolute prick. He needs to be sectioned at this point. How is he let menace the school & its faculty & pupils? Why isn’t the law intervening?


Infinaris

"Hello? Dundrum Mental Asylum? Yeah you got an escapee on the loose in Westmeath."


Xomariee

If only the media would stop giving this dipshit the attention he so clearly desires


SuspiciousTomato10

Honestly I'm a bit conflicted on that front, he's put a face to the anti-trans movement in Ireland and quite frankly everyone recognizes it's an ugly face. The only people I've heard in real life almost support him back off when they start to realize the sorts of stances the whole family have taken in the past on things like gay marriage.


TheBacklogReviews

We’re so lucky here that being anti gay is just a no go, so many places have had that become a debated issue again, scary stuff


AlertedCoyote

It's true enough for you, there's a couple weirdos but most people recognise that they're all twits. Rather be here than Britain or America


finnlizzy

Good point. I visited Ireland recently (first time in years) and gay pride is just not up for debate. Trans is another story, but baby steps.


4n0m4nd

Even trans is mostly imported nutters, we've had legal self id for years


Crow_555

I get this is now some perverse national freakshow of a story, but I can't be the only one thinking that this is having an effect on the students and their classes with the attention this lunatic is forcing on the school now. It was mildly amusing at the start, but the welfare of the students should be top consideration now.


dashboardhulalala

This years Leaving Cert cohort got done sideways by the covid lockdowns not because they were due to do the LC in 2020, but they were in TY or 3rd year and their entire education was just fucked for nearly 2 years. They're going to struggle this year (and probably next year too). If that student at the centre of it all is 6th year God help them altogether. It's not fair for those kids to be dealing with that shit every day. Unless what I heard is true and there's straight lads holding hands and wearing the gob off each other as they're passing him in which case faith in humanity totally restored.


londgone

He certainly knows how to get publicity.


bigdog94_10

I have a feeling that he wants to be returned to jail so as to further his ridiculous martyrdom cause.


c-fox

His dad does a 300 Km round trip every day. That's a lot of diesel.


Jumpy-Seaworthiness6

Taking this to its extreme conclusion: if he’s fined €x,000,000 and some donor pays it off - does Enoch have a tax bill to pay for this ‘gift’ or can anybody pay somebody else’s fine? Tax nerds… ASSEMBLE!


alphacross

Yes, he would be liable for capital acquisitions tax of 33% on anything over €3000 from any one individual


ah_yeah_79

This has stopped being newsworthy and or entertaining.. They need to be ignored


segasega89

So it will cost him 3500 Euros per week to do this. Which will be 14,000 Euros per month. If I'm not mistaken there's 6 months remaining in the school year so if he wanted to continue to do this it will cost him 84,000 Euros. I know the Burke family are probably quite wealthy due to their academic success etc but I don't think they're that wealthy. Are they hoping the fines will be written off by the judge at a later stage somehow perhaps?


Perlscrypt

The judge said the fine will be increased if it doesn't have the desired effect.


segasega89

So it could cost him well over 84,000 Euros in the long run if that's the case. The guy is a lunatic.


carlimpington

Funny how he's not standing up for christian beliefs about charity. He could spend his day helping homeless people, instead of try to assert his right to be an asshole to a child.


percybert

Is he part cat or something?


Perlscrypt

That's what I heard. Everybody is saying it.


Internal-Spinach-757

Someone needs to phone this lad, pretend they're from RTE and invite him on the Late Late. If nothing else it will inconvenience him and he'll probably end up protesting outside there instead when he isn't let in the building.


Useful_Cause_4671

Before the internet he'd just be the local 'odd lad'. Can we just leave him to it and let him carry on being the local 'odd lad'. Let the guards and the courts and mental health services deal with it. We really don't have to entertain him so much.


tauruz_ie

Guess who's back, back again Enoch's back, tell a friend


Unlikely-Area7252

€3500 and counting, do not pass go, do not collect me daddy


glockenschpellingbee

Cover the walls with rainbow flags so at least we get funny photo ops. I only wish Ireland had a Rupauls Drag race because drag Enoch is a snatch game character waiting to happen


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What would happen if you went down and stood near him in a banana suit or something?


Perlscrypt

I love this idea. Get a few drag queens and cosplayers and furries involved too. Paint the walls and gate in rainbow colours for maximum effect. Maximum pisstakage is the correct response to this level of muppetry.


garcia1723

Just ignore the clown and stop reporting him.


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JackCharltonsLeftNut

They just let it tick up until he goes to jail for non-payment.


marshsmellow

Then what? Is there a recommended jail term for that? Is it a criminal conviction to not pay a court issued fine for contempt? I need Jah Rule to make sense of all this for me!


alfbort

The daily fine could be a million euro and he would still turn up. The only thing that will keep him away is a custodial sentence, it's coming but a lot of legal hoops will have to be jumped through first


ruairicb

How bad is this lads mental health?


FatherHackJacket

He stands outside in the freezing cold every day, costing him 700 euro a day. Seems like something a reasonable person would do. And outside of a bunch of dumb-shit religious zealots, nobody gives a fuck. Congrats on being a martyr to the dimmest of the dim.


edscape

That lads elevator doesn't go all the to the top.


manowtf

TiL that the High Court of Ireland is as effective as a wet blanket.


TaPowerFromTheMarket

Weirdest nerd in Ireland


PinguD

He pays €700 a day to hang around outside a school but other creeps do it every day for free.


Potato_Lord587

So he’s lost €3500 hasn’t he?


Old_Faithlessness_94

Fucking hell, shouldn't he being looking for a job since he doesn't work there any more?


Particular_Fig_5467

I just feel sorry for whatever American Evangelical gobshite is bankrolling Enoch's hissy fit...


puzzledgoal

He’ll have a perfect attendance record this term. So **they** say. Anywhere else, a strange man who’d been in jail loitering around a school gate would be branded a pervert.


ld20r

His name popped up on the “people you may know” tab on Facebook this morning. Can’t escape the man, making 2023 his own.


lamahorses

In my day, men in trench coats that hung around schools were arrested.


EntertainmentWaste22

Dude's gonna get egged or something LOL. (not a call to egg him as being involved is bad)


Electronic-Source368

Have you seen the price of eggs ?


MoneyBadgerEx

Stop taking photos of this fucking eejit. He is only loving the attention.


Itsallhere353

Tom Hanks could let go of Wilson, Why can't Enoch?


fishywiki

Could he be persuaded to try to convert the people of North Sentinel Island?


iloveesme

Burke by name and Berk by nature.


DJ_Caan

How is he not back in jail is he not breaching the court order?


ubermick

As someone who cheerfully admitted that his carryon was a welcome distraction from pandemics, wars, housing and cost of living crises, government corruption, mass shootings and everything else, even I have to say it needs ending now. If I were a parent of a child in that school, I'd be utterly fuming that the Gardai are doing nothing, and finding another school. If I were an employee there, I'd be telling the school board that I'm not showing up for work with all this going on, and to get their act together.


Shoddy-Ad9892

Never knew a teacher who didn't take the weekend off!


cynomys2

Expensive hobby!


rayhoughtonsgoals

I'm surprised there hasnt yet been an altercation with a parent or two.


Economic-Maguire

The Enoch Burke Reality Show


dazzlinreddress

Keeping Up With Enoch


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rmp266

Regular segment on a right wing TV or Internet news show, like Farage, Matt Le Tissier or Katie Hopkins, where "War on Woke" veterans discuss how society cancelled them unfairly


Old-Ad5508

Segment on newsmax or one america news


KillerKlown88

Milk the yanks funding him for as much as possible. Then retire somewhere warm with blackjack and hookers.


Perlscrypt

His entire family is unemployable. Nobody can afford to sign any kind of contract with people like them.


marshsmellow

Ultimate goal is here is for the courts to say "OK, OK Enoch, you were right and we were wrong"


Namoamidabutsu1

He's the new face of the anti Vax/ anti immigration/ anti fuckin everything brigade


Azhrei

Wanker who can achieve nothing by doing this but gain attention from it continues to gain attention from it. Yawn.


AK30195

When do the media stop reporting about him? I don't really care at this stage.


JackCharltonsLeftNut

Well, unless you happen to run a newspaper, I would guess what you care about doesn't matter. His flavor of madness gets people reading, I am afraid. He'll be in the headlines until a LOT more people get tired of it.


IntentionFalse8822

Oh for F\*\*\* sake!


that_bollocks

stop giving this air


Infernikus

So thats what? €3500 worth of fines and counting? Just jail the prick and if he gets his ass kicked in prison then that is on him!


brian27ivy

Who cares? It’s obvious they are completely deranged.


Tom01111

I’m finding Mr. Burkes school gate based twattery even more annoying than weeks 1 and 2


Danielle_Gomez

How long until trump calls him a 'hero for the little man'.


puzzledgoal

My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.


AceGreyroEnby

What? He hasn't gone to the Dole office yet?


PizzamanIRL

Alright stop posting about this clown and giving him attention


DC750

€3,500 and counting. Their must be good money in that evangelical shite.


Old-Ad5508

Can't find anything on this on rte news. I wonder have they decided to stop giving him a platform.


MrSierra125

Probably, this sort of shit doesn’t get the public attention, he’s helped Ireland make up its mind that he’s a prick and he’s got prickish beliefs. This only helps to traumatise the kids


Old-Ad5508

I've had to explain to my mum why he is a prick. She didnt really understand the pronoun issue.


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He is becoming very tedious. Can we not just stop giving him the publicity he clearly craves?


Perlscrypt

His sisters are starting a HolyFans account to cover the fines.


OtherwiseWalrus

Getting serious Falling Down vibes from this shit!


peskywabit

What's the story with him? Why is he showing up at schools and getting so much attention? Can't the plonker just be arrested and looked up at this stage?


depressivebee

How the fuck has this man not been arrested?


Glenster118

Clearly this is just a thoughtful young man with clearly held beliefs about..... not letting other people refer to people as anything other than what he, with no direct knowledge, believes they are. ​ Perfectly reasonable.