Gaelscoileanna are top of the class

IN his letter published on November 26, Maurice Fitzgerald unfairly attacked the Irish medium education sector in an intemperate assault on faith-based schools and their role in Irish education.

Of course he may be forgiven as Education Minister Mary Hanafin appears to be blind to the benefits of Irish-medium education and, in particular, the total early immersion model.

In schools where total early immersion in Irish is on offer, pupils are taught all their subjects through Irish only for the first year at least at primary school.