Teaching religion is of primary importance

The removal of religious education from our primary schools is a bad decision which will deprive children of a valuable part of their upbringing, writes Tom McGurk.

'Isn't it fascinating that, in many ways, the Irish primary school of the future, as envisaged by Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn, will be about as tolerant to Christianity and all its symbols as modern Saudi Arabia is now?'
'Isn't it fascinating that, in many ways, the Irish primary school of the future, as envisaged by Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn, will be about as tolerant to Christianity and all its symbols as modern Saudi Arabia is now?'

So the Ireland of the future is going to be a post-Christian society. In keeping with the first snowball that the report of the Advisory Group to the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary ...