In a dramatic escalation of a long-running legal saga, a security guard physically barred controversial former teacher Enoch Burke from entering Wilson’s Hospital School this morning, prompting a call to gardaà and fresh court scrutiny.
Burke, 38, arrived at the Church of Ireland boarding school around 8:30 a.m., intending to resume teaching duties despite multiple High Court injunctions forbidding his presence. Dismissed in 2022 for refusing to use a transgender student’s preferred pronouns, Burke has repeatedly defied orders, citing his Christian beliefs and the school’s founding ethos of “two genders, male and female.”
Video footage shared on X by Burke shows the confrontation: a burly security operative, reportedly hired at €763 per week by the school board, positioned himself at the gate, arms outstretched. “You can’t come in,” the guard stated firmly as Burke protested, invoking 18th-century founder Andrew Wilson’s vision of righteous education. Tensions peaked in a verbal exchange, with Burke accusing the guard of enforcing “transgender ideology” over faith.
School principal Frank Milling alerted gardaà from Multyfarnham station, who arrived swiftly to de-escalate. No arrests were made, but the incident was relayed to Dublin’s High Court, where Justice David Cregan lambasted Burke’s “deluded” defiance. The judge suggested Burke foot the security bill, adding to his €225,000 in prior fines.
Supporters, including international voices on X, hailed Burke as a “martyr for truth,” praising his “excellent” record from students. Critics, however, decry the disruption to education, with one parent noting, “It’s chaos for our kids.”
Burke, absent from court, remains unbowed. “I answer to God,” he posted online. As the school year unfolds, this clash underscores Ireland’s fraught debate on faith, identity, and authority—leaving a historic institution under siege.
Who the hell is this migrant to tell an Irish man what he can and can’t do in his own country.
Let him go back to his own country and tell people what they can and can’t do.
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