Quinn is picking on the wrong target

Ruairi Quinn is very keen on anti-bullying initiatives, so he should stop picking on fee-paying schools. It's beginning to look a bit like, well, bullying.

Ruairi Quinn is very keen on anti-bullying initiatives, so he should stop picking on fee-paying schools. It's beginning to look a bit like, well, bullying.

There are 55 fee-paying secondary schools in the country, between them catering for about 7 per cent of the total student body. Last week, the Department of Education published a study commissioned by Quinn showing that the fee-paying schools had extra resources - some €80 million or so ...