{"id":462439,"date":"2026-05-22T22:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/462439\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:32:08","slug":"shame-shame-shame-burke-family-confront-minister-for-education-in-donegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/462439\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Shame, shame, shame&#8217;: Burke family confront Minister for Education in Donegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Enoch Burke\u2019s family confronted the Minister for Education, Hildegarde Naughton, at two schools in Co Donegal on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Burke\u2019s mother, Martina, and brother, Isaac, heckled the minister, who was at both Scoil Mhuire and Mulroy College in Milford.<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of the Burkes in Donegal came a day after Enoch Burke\u2019s dismissal from Wilson\u2019s Hospital School in Co Westmeath was confirmed by a Disciplinary Appeal Panel.<\/p>\n<p>Martina and Isaac Burke approached the minister as she left Scoil Mhuire, while footage showed Martina Burke using a loudspeaker and a microphone at the gates of Mulroy College.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShame, shame, shame,\u201d she called to the minister as she left with an entourage that included TDs Pat \u2018The Cope\u2019 Gallagher (Fianna F\u00e1il) and Charles Ward (100% Redress).<\/p>\n<p>The Burkes could be heard criticising the make-up of a Disciplinary Appeals Panel which this week upheld Burke\u2019s dismissal from the school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShame upon every politician here today,\u201d Martina Burke shouted. \u201cYou\u2019re a shame to this country. You\u2019re a disgrace to this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"not-prose no-underline\" data-action=\"click\" data-category=\"Read more article clicked\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/vulgar-cheap-malicious-man-who-harassed-female-colleague-ordered-to-pay-e5k-1903608.html\" data-value=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/vulgar-cheap-malicious-man-who-harassed-female-colleague-ordered-to-pay-e5k-1903608.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cc-mullingar-courthouse4.jpg\" class=\"rounded-sm object-contain bg-transparent z-10 w-full h-full not-prose\" alt=\"'Vulgar, Cheap, Malicious,' Man Who Harassed Female Colleague Ordered To Pay \u20ac5K\" width=\"278\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Ireland<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Vulgar, cheap, malicious,&#8217; man who harassed female colleague ordered to pay \u20ac5k<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Outside Mulroy College, the Burkes held posters showing Enoch Burke which read: \u201cEnoch Burke. 687 days in prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Members of An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na were present as the minister left the Milford school.<\/p>\n<p>A history and German teacher at the school, Burke has been incarcerated for refusing to obey a court injunction requiring him to stay away from the school.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Naughton was in Donegal to meet with school personnel in Milford and at St Eunan\u2019s College in Letterkenny, with those facilities seeking assistance to accommodation pressures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of Enoch Burke\u2019s family confronted the Minister for Education, Hildegarde Naughton, at two schools in Co Donegal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-462439","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\/462439","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=462439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}