Discussing the Catholic bias in Irish schools

From The Late Late Show 2nd September 2011

The vast majority of schools in Ireland are State funded but Catholic run. This is nowhere more obvious than in the primary school sector. Parents who do not wish their children to receive religious instruction find it very difficult to locate a school where their children will not be subject to Catholic indoctrination.
If they are extremely lucky, they will find a multi-denominational school nearby. For most, however, the only schools within their area will be Catholic schools. As the experiences recounted here illustrate, even when an agreement is reached with a school to accommodate parents desire for a religiously neutral education for their children, in reality our national schools continue to indoctrinate Catholicism, with the assistance of State funds.
The question here is whether the State should continue to support a school system that is organised around one religious ethos, or to separate religious and academic education entirely. Religious indoctrination should be optional, not inevitable.

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[asfsdaf asfdsfa]

tearing down of the roman catholic church is the first step to mongrelizing ireland,and making islam the dominant feature,you think thats paranoid?....look across the water at the uk and see whats going on there,with islam...and get back to me in ten years on where ireland has headed...islamic caliphate..

[DaithiDublin]

I'm just going to cut to the chase and tell you to Fuck Off.

[tristanlarke]

Any Irish wishing to be free of Catholicism in their schools and all other areas of life is akin to leopards wishing to be free of their spots. The Catholic Church built Western Civilisation. Are you literate? Thank the Church. Been in hospital? Thank Holy Mother Church. Been to university? Thank the Church. We invented all these things. And to espouse these hateful, Christophobic ideas is simply not Irish, nor are these vacuous people. The Church is as Irish as the bloody grass is green.

[DaithiDublin]

Do you cook your food? Thanks cavemen for that. Which is as logical as the connections you just made there. The first university (Bologna) taught Roman Law to help nations defend themselves against rulers (including the Church).

I don't dispute the connection between monasteries and the salvation of knowledge that would have been lost during the Dark Ages, but nor do I club women I fancy over the head just because I now have a cigarette lighter in my pocket.

[jamespg93]

actually you are wrong it was the Catholics who were here 1st with St. Patrick but it was the British who came here introduced us to modern culture made us live in one community introduced us to education currency better weapons for hunting and more. so by your logic we should have never rejected the British rule over Ireland.

[DaithiDublin]

OK, apart from education, a single currency, roads, sanitation, public health, law and order, public housing and the aqueduct.. what have the British ever done for us! LOL!

[thezenarcadian]

21:30 - listen to the seals clapping!

[ls22223]

The vast majority of immigrants in Ireland are catholics from Latin America, Poland and other places, not muslims.

[tom riddle]

really i think this is very much exagerated ....now i didnt go to catholic school but my friends did and like there not at all religious so from my own experience this doesnt appear to be a widespread problem

[IrishChristianity]

Ive read the Letter and Confession of Saint Patrick he was indeed a Christian. Was he a Roman Catholic as it stands today? No he was indeed not. Patrick founded the Celtic Christian church that was suppressed in 1172 at the Council of Cashel. After Rome gave king Henry III their blessing to invade Ireland & impose Roman Catholicism. Rome also gave king William of Orange their blessing and support to fight Catholic king James in Ireland. Rome a friend of the Irish?, they never were.

[Shane Crotty]

Actually an Italian bishop named Palladius was sent by the Pope to... survey the Irish people. Lets just say that the pagans didn't take to well to him. They consistently laughed at him, mocked him, and throw stones at him, whenever he was in sight.

[Magdalena Wypych]

As this video shows, Ireland is certainly not a first world country. We're still stuck with bronze age superstition being thought as fact in a large number of schools.

[jamespg93]

.......brought peace

[jamespg93]

true but you know what is even better Community schools you know the schools that teach dozens of different religions in a unbiased way

[jamespg93]

not so much it is nearly dead in fact i often find it strange when i meet someone my age who is religious even stranger if their christian