Judge defers review of daily €700 fines imposed on dismissed teacher Enoch Burke

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Mr Burke has continued to attend at the school on several dates and the fines, payable through the courts accounting system, had amounted on Thursday to some €9,800.

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Mr Burke was placed on paid administrative leave but, when he continued to attend at the school, he was committed to prison for contempt of the court orders. He was released after 108 days without purging his contempt, after Mr Justice O’Moore said he was exploiting his imprisonment for his own ends.

He continued to attend at the school and Mr Justice O’Moore decided on January 26th to impose fines of €700 daily from the following day. It is rare for the High Court to impose fines over failure to obey a court order but there have been a small number of cases where it has done so. One of the most controversial instances occurred in January 2000 when Mr Justice Diarmuid O’Donovan, since deceased, imposed a fine of €100,000 daily on the Irish Farmers’ Association arising from blockades by farmers of meat processing plants in a dispute over prices.

 

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Free speech for all. I don't agree with him but I will defend his right to say it.

He’s some man for one man, or woman, or both 🤔🤔

He probably doesn't have his own bank account - I suspect his mammy and daddy mind his money.

You can't get a knickers off a bare arse. These fines are pointless as they won't be paid.

Enoch is being discriminated for his religious beliefs, keeping doing your peaceful protest.

Seriously he needs to move on

Mr Burke is being denied his right to earn a living. How do they imagine he can pay the punitive fine!

Not attend. The word is trespass.

This is what Mr Burke had to say when he was asked about the illegal 'fines'.

A vow of poverty for the wannabe preacher man and the congregation he'll eventually ask for funds from.

Likes to hang around school kids

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