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BREAKING: COURT OF APPEAL DEFERS JUDGMENT IN ENOCH BURKE CASE FOR FOURTH TIME Today was the last day of school at Wilson’s Hospital School. In 2023, Enoch Burke appealed his purported dismissal to a body called the Disciplinary Appeal Panel. One of the three people nominated to sit on that appeal is Mr Kieran Christie, the General Secretary of the ASTI, the largest teachers’ union in Ireland. Less than a week after Mr Burke was first imprisoned in September 2022, the Sunday Independent published an article with the subtitle “ASTI advises schools to use the pronouns that students request to be addressed by”. In the article, the ASTI made the following statement: “Certainly we would advise schools to use the pronoun that a child wishes to be used”. Mr Burke asked Mr Christie, the head of the ASTI union, to step aside from sitting on his DAP appeal, but Mr Christie refused. The Court of Appeal heard this matter in December 2024, but has still not delivered its judgment. Yesterday, for the fourth time, the Court of Appeal deferred giving judgment, stating that it was “not yet in a position to deliver judgment”. The three judges who heard the case are Judge Donald Binchy, Judge Mary Faherty and Judge Nuala Butler. Each of these judges is on a salary of over €250,000 per annum. The extraordinary delay in ruling on this matter raises serious questions.
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