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Sat 01 Jan 2009Pastor criticises Ruane for cutbacks
A PROTESTANT clergyman has accused the North's Education Minister Caitriona Ruane of turning her back on young people living in the loyalist Sandy Row area of south Belfast by refusing to fund a social project for children aged four to 16.
Pastor Paul Burns, who ministers in the Shaftesbury and neighbouring Sandy Row district, said a progressive scheme serving 350 children and designed to help them break free from poor educational achievements and poorer employment prospects was jeopardised by what he called the Sinn Féin Minister's "Pontius Pilate" approach to the project.
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