Mick Clifford: The world tires of keeping up with the Burkes

Enoch Burke and his home-schooled siblings got an impressive education from their mother, but maybe class time could have focused on other topics, writes Mick Clifford
Mick Clifford: The world tires of keeping up with the Burkes

Enoch Burke being brought into the Four Courts by gardaí on Monday accompanied by his father, Sean Burke. Picture: Collins Courts

Enoch Burke believes he is in prison for his beliefs. At the High Court hearing on Monday, to which he was brought in a paddywagon after being arrested, he told judge Michael Quinn that what he really wanted was to be in school, exercising his passion for teaching.

“I am a teacher,” he said.

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