{"id":458307,"date":"2026-05-20T11:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458307\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T11:55:13","slug":"enoch-burke-raises-fresh-objections-about-appeals-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/458307\/","title":{"rendered":"Enoch Burke raises fresh objections about appeals panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enoch Burke has raised fresh objections about an appeals process relating to his dismissal from Wilson\u2019s Hospital School.<\/p>\n<p>The former history and German teacher has been engaged in a legal dispute with the Co Westmeath school since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He was suspended following incidents arising from a request from the school\u2019s then-principal to address a student by a new name and pronoun, and later dismissed from his position.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"430\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/enoch-burke-raises-fresh-objections-about-appeals-panel.jpg\" alt=\"Enoch Burke \" data-title=\"Enoch Burke court case\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Liam McBurney\" data-usage-terms=\"\"\/>Three disciplinary appeals panels have been formed to handle Enoch Burke\u2019s case. Photo: Liam McBurney\/PA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Burke has repeatedly argued that the direction was unconstitutional and went against his right to express his religious beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>He has spent more than 680 days in prison after he was found to have violated court orders instructing him not to trespass at the school.<\/p>\n<p>Three disciplinary appeals panels (DAPs) have been formed to handle the case and review his dismissal.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Wednesday, Mr Burke raised a new objection to the current panel, which he claimed necessitated \u201cthe dropping of the disciplinary proceedings\u201d against him, \u201ca fulsome apology\u201d by the board of the school and his \u201cfull reinstatement\u201d as teacher of German and history.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson\u2019s Hospital School and the Department of Education have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Enoch Burke has raised fresh objections about an appeals process relating to his dismissal from Wilson\u2019s Hospital School.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":458308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-458307","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\/458307","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=458307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}