Why the great baptism debate will be long fingered again
Bruton may want to end the 'baptism barrier' but getting everyone's blessing will be difficult, writes Hugh O'Connell
Richard Bruton would have been a happy man yesterday morning. Across the airwaves and on the front of every broadsheet paper was the news that he was about to end the so-called ‘baptism barrier’.
In what was billed as a major speech at an education seminar in Dublin, Bruton said: “I believe that non-religious parents or parents of minority religions should not be unfairly disadvantaged in seeking to admit their children to their ...
