Teachers get it handy!

[JimStynes]

Did ye not see the tans of the teachers on the picket line after being in Spain and Portugal on their half term? More money my hole.

Dubai actually

[seafoid]

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2023/03/09/battle-between-enoch-burke-and-wilsons-hospital-school-is-far-from-over/

The legal battle between teacher Enoch Burke and the Co Westmeath school that wants him dismissed is far from over and could continue for some time on at least two fronts.
Legal sources have estimated the costs incurred by Wilson's Hospital School in dealing with various pre-trial applications since last August is now into six figures and, after the full trial is heard, could be €500,000 or more.
While some costs orders have been obtained by the school against Burke, who is representing himself, there is no clarity concerning whether he has sufficient assets to pay those. It is understood that the school is insured in relation to the litigation costs.
Separately, Burke has been fined €700 daily since January 27th until he purges his contempt of court orders restraining him attending at the school. He again attended at the school on Wednesday, when the total fines stood at €28,700

[imtommygunn]

He is making an arse of the law and they need to work out something to deal with that. Absolutely ridiculous.

[Itchy]

He is making an arse of the law and they need to work out something to deal with that. Absolutely ridiculous.

He should have been left in jail until he purged his contempt. Letting him out caused this latest crap. Another reason Castlebar is a shithole

[JimStynes]

He is making an arse of the law and they need to work out something to deal with that. Absolutely ridiculous.

He should have been left in jail until he purged his contempt. Letting him out caused this latest crap. Another reason Castlebar is a shithole

Giving him a second thought is the mistake you are all making with someone like that. He is attention seeking and obviously not right in the head!

[seafoid]

https://twitter.com/Swimmingsolo1/status/1633540375733231626

[imtommygunn]

He is making an arse of the law and they need to work out something to deal with that. Absolutely ridiculous.

He should have been left in jail until he purged his contempt. Letting him out caused this latest crap. Another reason Castlebar is a shithole

Giving him a second thought is the mistake you are all making with someone like that. He is attention seeking and obviously not right in the head!

This case has serious consequences for rule of law etc. The guy's a tube etc who merits no attention but look at what is happening - a man is breaking the law and from what it looks like can't be stopped. It's not specifically about him it's about the precedent it sets.

[seafoid]

He is making an arse of the law and they need to work out something to deal with that. Absolutely ridiculous.

He should have been left in jail until he purged his contempt. Letting him out caused this latest crap. Another reason Castlebar is a shithole

Giving him a second thought is the mistake you are all making with someone like that. He is attention seeking and obviously not right in the head!

This case has serious consequences for rule of law etc. The guy's a tube etc who merits no attention but look at what is happening - a man is breaking the law and from what it looks like can't be stopped. It's not specifically about him it's about the precedent it sets.

Fintan O'Toole put it well. "He wants the courts to vindicate him – but does not feel bound by anything the courts do or say."

[Rudi]

He is making an arse of the law and they need to work out something to deal with that. Absolutely ridiculous.

He should have been left in jail until he purged his contempt. Letting him out caused this latest crap. Another reason Castlebar is a shithole

Giving him a second thought is the mistake you are all making with someone like that. He is attention seeking and obviously not right in the head!

This case has serious consequences for rule of law etc. The guy's a tube etc who merits no attention but look at what is happening - a man is breaking the law and from what it looks like can't be stopped. It's not specifically about him it's about the precedent it sets.

Fintan O'Toole put it well. "He wants the courts to vindicate him – but does not feel bound by anything the courts do or say."

The family are as mad as a box of frogs, but the school handled it badly too, to the tune of being down half a million. Thats bad business for a relatively small school. The parents of school going kids in that school will have to pick up a fair bit of that tab. They handled the whole thing very badly.

[seafoid]

He is making an arse of the law and they need to work out something to deal with that. Absolutely ridiculous.

He should have been left in jail until he purged his contempt. Letting him out caused this latest crap. Another reason Castlebar is a shithole

Giving him a second thought is the mistake you are all making with someone like that. He is attention seeking and obviously not right in the head!

This case has serious consequences for rule of law etc. The guy's a tube etc who merits no attention but look at what is happening - a man is breaking the law and from what it looks like can't be stopped. It's not specifically about him it's about the precedent it sets.

Fintan O'Toole put it well. "He wants the courts to vindicate him – but does not feel bound by anything the courts do or say."

The family are as mad as a box of frogs, but the school handled it badly too, to the tune of being down half a million. Thats bad business for a relatively small school. The parents of school going kids in that school will have to pick up a fair bit of that tab. They handled the whole thing very badly.

According to the Irish Times 500k is the max estimated liability and the school has insurance.

"Legal sources have estimated the costs incurred by Wilson's Hospital School in dealing with various pre-trial applications since last August is now into six figures and, after the full trial is heard, could be €500,000 or more.
While some costs orders have been obtained by the school against Burke, who is representing himself, there is no clarity concerning whether he has sufficient assets to pay those. It is understood that the school is insured in relation to the litigation costs."

[imtommygunn]

There's no way you could envisage this type of scenario though. Absolutely no way.

[Look-Up!]

There's no way you could envisage this type of scenario though. Absolutely no way.

Absolutely correct. Same way the family of that poor girl Sally Maaz could have envisaged what they'd have to endure the day of her inquest.

Burke family are the essence of human dirt.

[marty34]

He is making an arse of the law and they need to work out something to deal with that. Absolutely ridiculous.

He should have been left in jail until he purged his contempt. Letting him out caused this latest crap. Another reason Castlebar is a shithole

Giving him a second thought is the mistake you are all making with someone like that. He is attention seeking and obviously not right in the head!

This case has serious consequences for rule of law etc. The guy's a tube etc who merits no attention but look at what is happening - a man is breaking the law and from what it looks like can't be stopped. It's not specifically about him it's about the precedent it sets.

Fintan O'Toole put it well. "He wants the courts to vindicate him – but does not feel bound by anything the courts do or say."

The family are as mad as a box of frogs, but the school handled it badly too, to the tune of being down half a million. Thats bad business for a relatively small school. The parents of school going kids in that school will have to pick up a fair bit of that tab. They handled the whole thing very badly.

How is it the school's fault?

[seafoid]

There's no way you could envisage this type of scenario though. Absolutely no way.

Absolutely correct. Same way the family of that poor girl Sally Maaz could have envisaged what they'd have to endure the day of her inquest.

Burke family are the essence of human dirt.

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/the-burkes-of-castlebar-who-are-the-high-achieving-family-from-co-mayo-1.4847279


... the February inquest into the death of Sally Maaz. On several occasions during the two-day inquest, as the grieving Maaz family watched on quietly, there were heated exchanges between the Burke family and the coroner for Mayo, Patrick O'Connor. At one stage Martina Burke told the coroner: "You are not invincible, let me tell you." She later interjected that the inquest was a "whitewash".
Acting under Sections 6 and 8 of the Public Order Act 1994, gardaí removed Martina, Josiah and Jemima from the courthouse. As he was led away, Josiah roared that the court was "a sham" and a "disgrace". The family proceeded to film for their social media outside the coroner's court, accusing witnesses of lying and describing the hospital as "wicked".

Elijah Burke during a protest for students not eligable for predicted grades at Leinster House in July 2020. He went on to win his calculated grades exclusion case. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Superintendent Joe McKenna later apologised to the Maaz family for having to "endure" the behaviour of the Burkes. The Maaz family, says one source, "had no involvement and want no involvement" in the disruption to the hearing. A verdict on their daughter's death is due in the inquest at Swinford courthouse next Monday.

[seafoid]

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2023/03/16/enoch-burke-must-pay-23800-fine-by-next-week-over-egregious-disobedience-of-court-orders/

Enoch Burke is in "egregious disobedience" of a court order not to attend at a Co Westmeath school and must pay €23,800 in fines by March 23rd next, a High Court judge has ruled.
The school may apply to enforce payment of the fines by means such as seeking orders over Mr Burke's assets, Mr Justice Brian O'Moore said.
He said the €23,800 figure was based on fines of €700 daily imposed from January 27th to March 1st but warned that fines of €700 daily have, and will, continue to accrue until he purges his contempt of court orders not to attend at Wilson's Hospital School.
In considering whether the daily fine should be increased, the judge said he had concluded there are two possible reasons for Mr Burke's continuing contempt of the orders.
The first was that the fines are "too low" and the second is that Mr Burke does not really believe they will ever be enforced, he said.