# Source note — Enoch Burke / pronouns vs contempt orders

Date: 2026-09-07

## Social capture

- User URL: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1C7dVLsRPN/?mibextid=wwXIfr
- Resolved/canonical video: https://www.facebook.com/61585410700633/videos/900276209545431/
- `yt-dlp` captured MP4, automatic caption SRT, thumbnail, info JSON and frame contact sheet.
- Reel title: `160K views · 13K reactions | Mario Zelaya on Reels`
- Transcript summary: the speaker says Enoch Burke was returned to Mountjoy Prison for refusing to endorse transgenderism / refusing `they/them` pronouns.

## Evidence labels

- Real factual kernel: Burke’s dispute began after he objected to a student-name/pronoun direction. He has spent hundreds of days in prison across multiple contempt committals.
- Correct legal label: public court records and Irish reporting repeatedly state he was committed for contempt after breaching High Court orders not to attend/trespass at Wilson’s Hospital School.
- Misleading leap: saying “the crime was refusing pronouns” collapses the underlying workplace/conscience dispute into the later contempt/trespass-order reason for imprisonment.
- Judge extraction: cross-site judge-monitoring trigger applies because this is a court-order/judicial-contempt story.

## Key sources

- facebook_reel: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1C7dVLsRPN/?mibextid=wwXIfr
- facebook_canonical_video: https://www.facebook.com/61585410700633/videos/900276209545431/
- rte_jan_16_2026: https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2026/0116/1553419-enoch-burke/
- rte_may_5_2026: https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2026/0505/1571800-enoch-burke-court/
- irish_legal_iehc_431: https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/high-court-burke-released-from-prison-in-light-of-material-change-in-circumstances
- the_journal_may_2026: https://www.thejournal.ie/enoch-burke-prison-court-trespassing-7031366-May2026/
- bbc_2024_release_context: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0dm0nyx7leo
- irish_examiner_transfer: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/courtandcrime/arid-41809349.html
- irish_times_fines_july_2026: https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/07/15/enoch-burke-owes-208000-in-fines-arising-from-wilsons-hospital-school-dispute-court-rules/
- courts_ie_2026_iehc_31_pdf: https://www2.courts.ie/acc/alfresco/fe7d5b53-c7b8-4a31-8553-af999a1802ee/2026_IEHC_31.pdf/pdf
- courts_ie_2026_iehc_171_pdf: https://www2.courts.ie/acc/alfresco/a8353ae7-1a83-4f3c-810c-7da62307cb3f/2026_IEHC_171.pdf/pdf
- courts_ie_judges_list: https://www.courts.ie/visit-and-learn/the-judges
- merrionstreet_brian_cregan: https://merrionstreet.ie/en/news-room/releases/appointments-to-the-high-court-3.html