Protestant fee-paying schools

Sir, – How right Ian d’Alton is on the subject of Protestant fee-paying schools (September 17th). I can, I think, defend religious apartheid, but not social apartheid, which is what these schools are rapidly coming to exemplify. I believe that there are now well over 50 per cent Roman Catholics in Alexandra College, Dublin. In what sense therefore is it a Protestant school? – Yours, etc,

ROBERT MacCARTHY,

(formerly Dean

of St Patrick’s Cathedral),

Suirmount,

Clonmel.