Essential requirements for the role(s) available include relevant qualification or experience in catechetics, religious education, theology, leadership, pastoral care or youth ministry.

“Young people, parents, schools and faith communities will find this book an invaluable resource in reflecting on how the interaction between religion and education can contribute to the fullest development of young people in Ireland today, both spiritually and morally,” said Dr Gareth Byrne.

"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."

“Our concern is that in schools we are involved in, if religious education is not taken as a subject, we would want the issue of ethics, heritage and so on, to be considered,” says Bishop Leahy.

“Whether young people are practising a faith or not, there is an enormous value for them in having the space in the school to look at spiritual, moral and religious questions,” says Dr Gareth Byrne.

To counter terrorism, we must “keep reminding each other of high ideals and have the courage to speak of them and promote them”.

Approach of ERBE course could undermine ethos of faith schools and cause confusion says Catholic Primary School Management Association.

Getting rid of religion in primary schools will not solve curriculum overload problem – Catholic Primary Schools Management Association.

Speakers to address how religious education plays a vital role in supporting young people.

He has already served as Administrator of the Diocese for a period in 2007 following the retirement of Bishop Laurence Forstall.

“We wish to assure parents that the Minister’s announcement does not alter the ethos of Catholic schools" - Bishops' Council for Education.

“A faith school has a right to have a faith-based ethos. Parents have a right to send their children to a school with a faith ethos that can permeate the school day”.

Without a conscious effort to maintain a distinctly Catholic ethos, it can dissolve into non-descript and vague spiritualism or disappear entirely.

Bishop Brendan Leahy urges grandparents to help their grandchildren in the faith at 2015 Catholic Grandparents Pilgrimage in Knock.

Report by UCC academics says there needs to be a very significant improvement in the teaching of RE as many pupils and some teachers see it as a doss subject.

Confirmation often appears like a “pre-fabricated cultural package of Irish heritage we are born into" to be discarded later in life as part of our throwaway culture.

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

Examples of inclusivity in schools in practically every parish in the country: Fr Drumm of CSP.

Demand for Catholic education growing: 60m students attend 200,000 catholic schools worldwide.

Good religious education is a “fundamental part of the DNA of a pluralist system”.

Faith formation should be part of educational curriculum, though sacramental preparation may shift to parish.

Modesty in lifestyle undermined as people are tempted into a false view of life based on spin.

Catholic education must reach out to those with unmet educational needs.

“Religion and politics need to converse if education is to flourish rather than flounder."