Why does the State spend an annual figure of €6.75m on the Protestant Block Grant which supports Protestants who need it with school fees? asks Victoria White

As Education Minster Jan O’Sullivan had to acknowledge recently, the Government decision to change school patronage to better reflect Ireland today has hardly led to rapid change in the management of our education system. 

GOVERNMENT aspirations to allow for more diverse school populations have been branded as pointless by the principal of a Protestant school where more than a quarter of pupils have been refused a school bus service.

THE number 13 has proved lucky for children in a Co Cork school.

The first new Church of Ireland school since the foundation of the State was officially opened in Co Meath today.