Is Sinn Fein trying to split the education system?
Posted on April 29th, 2009 Conall McDevitt 4 comments There are suggestions that the emerging splits in the Catholic education sector are politically motivated. Speaking this morning on Good Morning Ulster, Bishop Donal McKeown, the Chairperson of the Catholic Commission on Education pointed to the fact that there are principals and teachers in every part of the catholic education sector who have political agendas on this issue. This is nearly certainly so. What is also true is that these opinions are now being aired in public not because these people wish their personal political views to be aired at work but because of the failure of a Sinn Fein Minister to show leadership on the issue and find compromise with her fellow public representatives. That professionals are becoming politicised in this nature is a total indictment of politics and a negative development. Following the Bishop’s interview the programme was flooded with texts from people claiming to support the primary school p
