The Catholic Church secured a crucial pledge from Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe

Author Teach Dont Preach Published January 10, 2012 Comments 1

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They emphasised their wish to be able to assure Catholic parents of pupils in Community National Schools that their children would follow the same religious education programme as in a Catholic school.

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