Catholic schools

Parents have previously written to the school to oppose the Relationships and Sexuality Education programme. Education Equality has said it is “appalled” at the planned relationships and sexuality education programme from a school in Wicklow. Lacken National School, a Catholic co-educational primary school in Blessington, confirmed to JOE that a letter had been sent around […]

4 years ago

“Why is it likely I’ll have to send him to a Catholic school, when it goes against so much of what I’m fundamentally about?” I remember vividly the only time I was ever taught about sex, at school. It was during a biology lesson in 1st year at my Catholic convent high school. I should […]

5 years ago

Sex and puberty are being described as ‘gifts from God.’ A new relationships and sexuality education (RSE) resource has been developed by the Irish Bishops’ Conference, and is due to be used in Catholic ethos primary schools from this September onwards. However, the programme, called Flourish, has already been rejected by at least three Catholic […]

5 years ago

Legislation to remove the ‘baptism barrier’ has been passed by the Dáil. The law which would remove the necessity to be baptised to gain entry into a Catholic school was accepted last night. The Education (Admission to Schools) Bill dictates that the barrier would be removed from most schools, but kept in cases where a child […]

8 years ago

Will the barrier be broken?

9 years ago

So, here we are. We’re at the point we were hoping not to be at with our children – our eldest starts school next week and our best available option for him was a Catholic School. Even though he isn’t Catholic. There are three schools in our immediate area that are convenient for us to […]

10 years ago