This month saw the opening of three Educate Together national schools in Dublin, Wexford and Galway; and one second-level school in Kildare.

The Equality Tribunal has found that a primary school in Munster discriminated against a teacher on the grounds of age, religion, and sexual orientation and has ordered it to pay her €54,000 in compensation, the equivalent of a year’s salary.

Opposition to the handover of Catholic schools to new patrons often comes as much from politicians as from parents, Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has claimed.

The growing town of Carrigaline is to have two additional second-level schools from 2016.

Boston cardinal Sean O’Malley skipped a college commencement in protest at its decision to honour Taoiseach Enda Kenny, who backs laws to permit abortion.

The Catholic Schools Partnership has questioned how schools can change patronage when the majority of parents in their areas want their child’s school to remain under the control of the Catholic Church.

Negates rights, says Eamonn Conway and Rik Van Nieuwenhove

YOU report (November 4) how the European Court of Human Rights wants to ban crucifixes from school classrooms in Italy. Such a ban would be welcome but in the view of our group, Count Me Out, it would not go far enough.

Police in the North are investigating a petrol bomb attack on a Catholic school in north Belfast this morning.

YOUR front page story with its very evocative photograph (January 3) showing the extreme measures undertaken by prospective Tralee parents for a school place for their children for September 2010 is one of the most amazing stories I have read in a long teaching career.

DISCIPLINE is more important than religious education when parents choose a school for their children, a study has revealed.

CATHOLIC bishops have signalled that the Church’s involvement in the future running of primary schools may be reduced.

UK police are today looking for two men seen near a school where a home-made nail bomb exploded inside a teacher’s car.

A Catholic school in the North has announced plans to close because of sectarian attacks.

Bomb-disposal experts are examining a suspicious device found on the windowsill of a Catholic school in Armagh.

A Catholic primary school in Ballymena has become the latest target of an ongoing campaign of sectarian attacks by loyalists in the north Antrim area.

The sexual abuse crisis in America’s Roman Catholic Church has focused primarily on molestation by priests, but in Louisville, two dozen people are now suing an order of nuns that staffed an orphanage decades ago.

A Catholic grammar school in north Belfast was targeted tonight in a bomb attack.

TWELVE-YEAR-OLD Abbangeal Venn has been able to keep a close eye on her brother, Ross, eight, during the school year.

THE Catholic Church should give up control of schools because many of them are enrolling their own members before children of other faiths, a parents leader said at the weekend.

The chairman of the board of governors at the Catholic Holy Cross primary school in north Belfast said he hopes the discovery of a pipe bomb at the school earlier today does not signal the start of a new sectarian campaign.

A Catholic school in north Belfast has been damaged in a sectarian arson attack.

THOSE who are not happy with the Catholic ethos should be free to set up their own secular schools in which liberal and feminist dogma are taught.

A Catholic school in east Belfast was damaged in an early morning arson attack today.

Pupils of the Holy Cross girls’ primary school in north Belfast walked to school in peace this morning, despite two nights of sectarian rioting centred around the Catholic school.

British army explosives experts were called in today to defuse a pipe bomb left at a Catholic school in the Ballysillan area of north Belfast.