Mick Clifford: Why the Enoch Burke saga is bigger than one teacher or one school

The Enoch Burke case highlights legal uncertainty, policy paralysis and how culture-war politics risk eclipsing students’ real needs

Enoch Burke being arrested at Wilson’s
Hospital School in Westmeath on Monday morning after he arrived there in defiance of a High Court order. Picture: Colin Keegan/Collins

Let’s give Trump a wide berth for a column. He is sucking enough oxygen out of the atmosphere, as he increasingly regresses to the mentality of a five-year-old. Give him Greenland in a baby bottle, it might keep him quiet for a few hours.

Instead, take a look at another person who is causing consternation of a different hue over the last few years, Enoch Burke.