Five schools to open by 2013 [IrishTimes]
- Published: 08 March 2011
FIVE NEW primary schools are to be established over the next two years under the patronage of the multi-denominational group Educate Together and the gaelscoil umbrella body, An Foras Pátrúnachta.
All five are in areas of rapid population growth in the Dublin commuter belt.
Educate Together will open schools in the Dublin suburbs of Blanchardstown west, Mulhuddart and Ashbourne, Co Meath. An Foras Pátrúnachta will open one inter-denominational school in west Dublin and one in Ashbourne.
There are no new Catholic schools in the list of new schools detailed by the Department of Education yesterday.
Last month, the Archbishop of Dublin, Dr Diarmuid Martin acknowledged the Catholic Church was over-represented in primary education, given the increasing secularisation of Irish society.
At present, the church controls 89.6 per cent of all primary schools in the State.
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