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Social Democrats co-leader Róisín Shortall TD has called upon the Minister for Education, Richard Bruton, to remove restrictions on student intake at new Educate Together primary schools. Deputy Shortall said: “Parents who had expected that their children would be enrolling in five schools run by the multi-denominational patron have been devastated to learn that they […]

IT USED TO be thought that Educate Together schools were niche schools for a small minority of atheist parents and immigrants. But they are not. They are multi-denominational schools that cater for parents who want to send their children into classrooms where being Catholic is not the status quo; who do not want their sons […]

Social Democrats’ representative Ronan Moore has accused the Department of Education and Skills of stunting the growth of recently opened Educate Together primary schools. Mr Moore was commenting on a report today that five schools under the multi-denominational patron have been told by the Department that they must reduce their new pupil intake from a […]