Close consultation needed on many handover possibilities

KILLARNEY is one of a number of areas chosen to highlight the different possibilities for the handover of Catholic schools for primary education with a different type of religious ethos.

Not unlike most of the other 43 towns listed by the Department of Education with potential for the Catholic diocese to divest its patronage of some of its schools, all the 12 schools in Killarney, or within a 5km radius, are of the Catholic denomination.

This kind of limited choice for parents of the kind of school where they want their children educated is what has led to the exercise being developed by the hierarchy, notwithstanding the inclusiveness of Catholic schools over the past decade.