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Enoch Burke leaving Wilson\u2019s Hospital School in Co Westmeath having been refused entry (Brian Lawless\/PA)<\/p>\nEnoch Burke\u2019s mother and sister have been released from Mountjoy Prison, two weeks after they were arrested.<\/p>\n
A video of the two women leaving the Dublin city prison was posted on the former school teacher\u2019s profile on the social media site X.<\/p>\n
Martina, Burke\u2019s mother, and Ammi, his sister, were sentenced to two weeks in jail for contempt of court in early March.<\/p>\n
Enoch Burke leaving Wilson\u2019s Hospital School in Co Westmeath having been refused entry (Brian Lawless\/PA)<\/p>\n
The Burke family have been engaged in a number of legal disputes arising from Burke\u2019s dismissal from Wilson\u2019s Hospital School in Co Westmeath.<\/p>\n
In 2022, Enoch Burke was asked by the school\u2019s then-principal to address a student by a new name and pronoun.<\/p>\n
The Burke family has repeatedly argued that the direction was unconstitutional and went against Burke\u2019s right to express his religious beliefs.<\/p>\n
He has been imprisoned for more than 600 days over contempt of court relating to breaches of orders not to trespass at the school.<\/p>\n
On March 4th, a High Court judge ordered the two women to be jailed for two weeks after finding them in contempt of court.<\/p>\n
The charge was in relation to a hearing on February 20th, during which both women were removed from court by eight to 10 garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n
Judge Brian Cregan said the hearing \u201cdescended into chaos\u201d when they interrupted proceedings.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cThey both knew full well that they had no right of audience and no right to speak, yet they persisted in standing up in court and shouting and roaring at the top of their voices.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defending her actions, Martina Burke told the court her son Enoch had been \u201cdenied his constitutional rights\u201d, while Ammi Burke said she \u201cwon\u2019t sit silently by while my brother\u2019s constitutional rights are being denied\u201d.<\/p>\n
The judge said \u201cit is clear\u201d that the Burke family \u201cbelieve that they are above the law\u201d.<\/p>\n
On March 31st, the two women were arrested at Castlerea Prison in Co Roscommon after visiting Enoch Burke.<\/p>\n
In the video posted on X on Monday, Martina Burke described the treatment of her family as \u201cdisgraceful\u201d.<\/p>\n
Standing outside the prison with Ammi Burke and her husband Sean, she said her family would \u201ccontinue to fight and stand up for the truth\u201d and \u201cwon\u2019t be silenced\u201d by imprisonment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Enoch Burke\u2019s mother and sister have been released from Mountjoy Prison, two weeks after they were arrested. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-397621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}