Parents and teachers want to keep local Catholic schools
Oisín Lee and Sophie Hannon of St Brigid’s National School in Kildare making St Brigid’s crosses with President Michael D. Higgins. Photo: CNS
Politicians need to learn that it is voters not the Church leading resistance on schools, writes Ruadhán Jones Almost everyone seems to be in agreement that Ireland needs to have a more pluralist school system, giving parents a choice of multi-denominational and Catholic schools. Bishops are for it, politicians are for it and the general…