{"id":167309,"date":"2025-11-07T04:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/167309\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T04:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T04:50:14","slug":"mcguirk-the-burke-saga-is-irelands-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/167309\/","title":{"rendered":"MCGUIRK: The Burke saga is Ireland\u2019s Ukraine War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Two of the world\u2019s greatest and intractable conflicts started within just a few months of each other in the year of our lord, 2022.<\/strong> In February of that year, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a \u201cspecial military operation\u201d to \u2013 in his words \u2013 \u201cdemilitarise and denazify Ukraine\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Three months later, in May, then Principal of Wilson\u2019s Hospital Secondary School, Niamh McShane, requested that teaching staff in her school should refer to a particular pupil by a new name and use \u201cthey\/them\u201d pronouns, sparking a war with Enoch Burke and his wider family that continues to the present day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of the world\u2019s greatest and intractable conflicts started within just a few months of each other in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,96115,27,8662,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,550,7,8,551,96116,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-167309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-contempt-of-court","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-enoch-burke","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-russia","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-ukraine","25":"tag-wilsons-hospital","26":"tag-world","27":"tag-world-news","28":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115506618261419321","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}