Faith more important than a right to education?

ONE of Fianna Fáil’s ‘next steps’ in the last general election was to “tackle the evil of sectarianism which threatens the shared society we seek to achieve on this island”.

The disgusting racist and sectarian policy of the Dublin archdiocese to favour white Catholic children over black non-Catholic children in deciding who will receive an education in its schools sticks two fingers up at this ‘next step’.

Nearly all primary schools in this country are still controlled by a church whose moral authority is in tatters, its reputation irreparably tarnished and which is seeing falling attendance at its services.