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Press release: From Equality in Education Alliance, Irish National Schools’ Trust and Citizens to Separate Church & StatenFor immediate usennnnnnn17/03/16nnGROUPS COMBINE TO PROMOTE A TRUE NATIONAL SCHOOL SYSTEM IN THIS CENTENARY YEAR OF THE NATIONnnThree educational reform groups have agreed a common platform as a solution to the problems of diversity in primary education.  At…

Irish National Schools’ Trust, Citizens to Separate Church and State and Equality in Education Alliance issued this press release today directed at the parties negotiating a Programme for Government.nnIt calls on them to resolve the two issues dividing some of our children from attending local National Schools.nn(1) religion tests used for admissionnn(2) failure to separate…

Religion in our Census of Population, April, 2016 – A Useful Question or Intentional Propaganda Tool to Bolster Church Influence in Education and Health?nnCitizens to Separate Church & State has expressed its misgivings about the Census question about ‘Religion’. What is its real value and does it elicit the truth? Is it measurable at all?nnSince…

Decision of the Supreme Court on the Reference to it by the President of the Employment Equality Bill, 1996nn118/97 of 15 May 1997nnThis section reproduced below is from the judgement of the Court dealing with the ‘religion ground’ test. The full judgement is reported here:nnhttp://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ie/cases/IESC/1997/6.html&query=equality+bill&method=alln CSCS is posting this section to show the complexity of…

#‎PaddyMonahan‬ writing in an Opinion piece in yesterday’s Irish Times. He doesn’t think much of the three main parties attitude to the issues of (1) religion tests applied for admission and (2) separation of the periods of religious instruction from the secular subjects. The import of Article 44.2.4 is just not being addressed. Omerta rules!nnThe…