Eight out of 10 Educate Together schools opened over the last decade are still residing in temporary accommodation such as rugby clubs or community centres - awaiting the delivery of a permanent school.

Latest: The Minister for Education, Richard Bruton, has "broadly welcomed" the move by the ETBI to no longer hold communion preparation classes during the school day at Community National Schools.

A battle for the patronage of a primary school planned for one of Cork’s largest towns has kicked off.

Twenty-three primary schools across the country are set to lose their Catholic Church patronage, with most likely to transfer to the multi-denominational Educate Together.

IT’S time we paid more than lip service to parental choice in education.