Catholic Primary Schools Management Association calls on Education Minister to “man up” and get extra resources for education and capitation grants. Focus on baptism barrier is “sucking the air out of real issues, like lack of resources”.

CPSMA AGM told that deletion of Rule 68 “may have unwittingly edged us closer to a situation whereby the State is no longer providing for education through a plurality of providers, but is itself providing a monolithic-type state education”.

Past pupil, long serving staff member and patron of Summerhill College “delighted to be associated so publicly with such a progressive development”.

The internet is by far the single greatest referral source for new Cura clients (41%) with over half of new-users visiting the site via tablet or smartphone.

“The Catholic Church has no interest in having a monopoly of all the schools of Ireland," Primate tells RTE Radio.

Baptising children simply to be able to attend a specific school is an abuse of baptism Archbishop Diarmuid Martin warns.

In the current debates about Catholic schools there is often so much emphasis on ownership and rights to ownership from the Church side.

“There has been a significant increase in those attending Third Level. When I started, 7% went on to third level, last year we sent 78%.”

Equality would be best served by diversity of adoption providers with reasonable accommodation in law for those of a particular religious ethos: NI bishops.

"There is no divine right to a Catholic near-monopoly in education in Ireland."

Archbishop warns of resistance as everybody is in favour of diversity except for their own school.

Head of Commission for Catholic Education on the characteristics of a Catholic school.

Situation facing hospital “very, very grave” directors warn.