More coordinated approach needed, says report into sacking

A REPORT into the row which led to the sacking of a Gaelscoil principal recommends a more coordinated approach to the teaching of religion.

Tomás Ó Dúlaing was dismissed from his post at Gaelscoil Thulach na nÓg in Dunboyne, Co Meath, in July for disciplinary breaches. At the centre of the dispute was Mr Ó Dúlaing’s efforts to prepare Catholic children at the interdenominational school for First Communion outside normal school hours.

The school’s patronage body, An Foras Pátrúnachta, asked the Marino Institute of Education to examine the issue of religious education at the school last April. The report will be published today.