Paul Rowe
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Educate Together appoints new CEO
- Education
- October 24, 2019, 18:03
Educate Together, the largest multi-denominational school patron, has named Emer Nowlan as the organisation’s new chief executive officer. She will re(...)

Parents welcome change of patron for two Dublin secondary schools
- Education
- September 11, 2019, 21:01
Parents who have been campaigning for greater multi-denominational secondary education in the Dublin area have welcomed changes in the patronage of tw(...)

How would removing sacramental preparation from the school day affect parents?
- Education
- May 15, 2019, 03:00
Schools are entitled to set aside up to 30 minutes of the school day for religious instruction, twice the amount of time devoted to subjects such as p(...)

Catholic schools eye preparation for sacraments beyond classroom
- Education
- May 15, 2019, 03:00
Catholic schools want key preparations for sacraments such as Confirmation and Communion to take place outside the classroom, according to the finding(...)

Breda O’Brien: Divestment of schools requires more to be built
- Opinion
- April 6, 2019, 02:00
The row about divestment of Catholic schools in the Portmarnock, Malahide and Kinsealy area is not about a battle between church and State, or resista(...)

Educate Together schools salute ‘radical’ founders 40 years ago
- Education
- October 12, 2018, 01:00
When a pioneering group of parents went about trying to set up the State’s first multi-denominational school in the mid-1970s, they quickly realised t(...)

Pupil numbers grew 10% at multi-denominational schools
- Education
- February 26, 2018, 20:10
Multi-denominational schools are the fastest growing school patrons in the State, with pupil numbers growing 10 per cent in the last year alone. Howe(...)

Humanism to be taught in Educate Together primary schools
- Education
- May 11, 2017, 19:44
Primary pupils in Educate Together schools are to receive lessons in humanism under a new initiative. Educate Together, a non-denominational patron b(...)

Breda O’Brien: Educate Together disingenuous on disadvantage
- Opinion
- April 1, 2017, 05:00
Minister for Education Richard Bruton recently chose Francis Street CBS in Dublin’s inner city as the venue to launch a new literacy and numeracy sche(...)

Educate Together says patronage transfer plans ‘unfair’
- Education
- January 30, 2017, 19:02
Educate Together, the main provider of multidenominational education, says new plans to transfer patronage away from hundreds of religious schools are(...)