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Burke family matriarch’s behaviour in High Court just the latest time she has crossed a line

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Enoch Burke’s parents Sean and Martina and his sister Ammi arrive at court in Dublin. Photo: Collins

October 15 2022 02:30 AM

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There was a depressing familiarity to the fractious scenes at the Court of Appeal yesterday that led to Martina Burke being escorted from the courtroom by gardaí.

The mother of 10, matriarch of a well-known family of evangelical Christians from Castlebar, Co Mayo, made the wholly unsubstantiated claim that her son, schoolteacher Enoch Burke, was being incarcerated “because of corrupt judges who denied their vow to uphold the Constitution”.The mother of 10, matriarch of a well-known family of evangelical Christians from Castlebar, Co Mayo, made the wholly unsubstantiated claim that her son, schoolteacher Enoch Burke, was being incarcerated “because of corrupt judges.