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Irish Daily Mirror

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November 27, 2025

Straight talking...

- NEIL LESLIE

THE LORD works in mysterious ways.

This week he appeared to have forsaken one of his staunchest disciples. After a biblical stay of 500 days and 500 nights in Mountjoy, it seemed even Enoch Burke's tolerance to be persecuted for his Christian beliefs was wavering.

For the first time in nearly four years, since he first refused to just let it go and call a trans schoolkid by their preferred pronouns, his resolve cracked.

He failed to pick up his cross and turn up outside Wilson's Hospital School where he knew gardai would be waiting to cart him off to the banks of the Royal Canal for a fourth time.

Instead, for once he stayed quiet and away from the phone.

He could not be located at the Burke family home in Mayo where the searching gardai were scattered like so many pharisees.

If there was ever a moment for the God of the Burkes' fundamentalist brand of literal belief in the bible to show up and send a plague on the Irish courts and gardai, this was it.

EXHAUSTED

Last week it seemed that Judge Brian Cregan had finally exhausted the patience of the many saints that one needs to deal with the Burkes across a courtroom.

He ordered Enoch to be indefinitely detained in Mountjoy at the discretion of the bench.

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