Just eight schools divested of church patronage

On entering office former education minister Ruairi Quinn made it one of his top priorities to introduce plurality into a church-dominated education system.
Just eight schools divested of church patronage

That was 2011, and almost five years on very little has changed — just eight schools have been taken out of the hands of the church.

As Mr Quinn summed it up, if the Catholic Church was a commercial company the Competition Authority would order it to divest itself of at least half of its urban schools.

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