Protestant schools 'victimised' [independent.ie]
- Published: 25 April 2009
Source: independent.ie
By John Cooney
Saturday April 25 2009
The Anglican Archbishop of Dublin has renewed his attack on the Government, claiming that the Budget's education cutbacks have endangered the survival of Protestant schools in the Republic.
Archbishop John Neill said last night that it was very sad that at a time of growth in Church of Ireland numbers, "there should be a blindness to the needs of Protestant schools, a need which was fully recognised by all previous administrations". He described the cuts as "very discriminatory". He was speaking at the book launch in Kilkenny Castle of 'Where Swift and Berkeley Learnt', a history of Kilkenny College.
The archbishop regretted that in spite of every effort by Protestant schools and by Church of Ireland bench of bishops, there was "an unbelievable lack of understanding in the Department of Education and Science of the fact that previous Governments have recognised the specific needs of providing education within their own ethos for a vibrant but scattered Protestant population".
- John Cooney
