“It is not just a matter of re-opening the schools, it is putting in place the measures necessary to keep the schools open," says CPSMA general secretary Seamus Mulconry.

"Our teachers are very much at the coal face in a society where there is so much pain, so much anger and so much distress."

The Adult Religious Education and Faith Development (AREFD) research project is set to run for the next three years following a major grant by the north-east province of the Presentation Sisters.

You can help prevent someone with enormous potential from dropping out of college just because they can’t afford the day-to-day expenses of student life.