Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin was heckled by members of the Burke family during a canvass in the Galway West constituency on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Martin was in the constituency to canvass for the Fianna F\u00e1il candidate Cillian Keane ahead of Friday’s by-election to replace the D\u00e1il seat vacated by President Catherine Connolly.<\/p>\n
While canvassing, Martin was approached by Enoch Burke’s brother Isaac and mother Martina, who repeatedly heckled the Taoiseach about Enoch’s continued incarceration in Castlerea Prison.<\/p>\n
During the heated three-minute encounter the Burke family persistently bombarded the Taoiseach with questions demanding answers over Enoch.<\/p>\n
Martina Burke asked the Taoiseach if he agreed with transgenderism and if he had anything to say on the imprisonment of Enoch Burke.<\/p>\n
She called the Taoiseach a “disgrace” and a “creep” and said he will “destroy other children”.<\/p>\n
Isaac Burke said to the Taoiseach: “You have nothing to say and you are looking for votes here in Galway this evening”.<\/p>\n
He added, “Fianna F\u00e1il stand for children can change gender”.<\/p>\n
While Martin did not comment, he became visibly irate as Isaac Burke blocked his path as he was walking, before eventually leaving the area in a car.<\/p>\n
Afterwards, the Burke family continued to have a verbal altercation with Fianna F\u00e1il canvassers.<\/p>\n
Enoch Burke, who taught German and History at Wilson\u2019s Hospital Secondary School in Co Westmeath, has been in prison for almost 700 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin was heckled by members of the Burke family during a canvass in the Galway West…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-459895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459895","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=459895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}