Paul Rowe

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(...)

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(...)

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(...)

Primary pupils in Educate Together schools are to receive lessons in humanism under a new initiative. Educate Together, a non-denominational patron b(...)

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, the main provider of multidenominational education, says new plans to transfer patronage away from hundreds of religious schools are(...)

Minister for Education Richard Bruton maintains the Dáil “has an appetite” to deal with the ‘baptism barrier’ issue and that there is a clear timetabl(...)

New school admissions legislation will do nothing to change the “Catholic first” enrolment policies of the vast majority of schools, an Oireachtas com(...)

New schools will be permitted to appoint a principal at an earlier stage, under measures to be announced on Monday – by Minister for Education Richard(...)

In a first floor office building in the centre of Castlebar, an Educate Together national school opened its doors to 12 pupils on Wednesday morning. (...)