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Karin Fischer

‘secularisation’ of principals. In 2006, it came into direct conflict with the Catholic Primary School Managers’ Association (CPSMA), when the head of the IPPN, Sean Cottrell, took a stand against religious instruction and especially against preparation for the First Communion and Confirmation within school hours.88 Cottrell declared that families, not schools, should by right take responsibility for their children’s religious education, with direct help from clergy. He insisted that schools could no longer be expected to prepare children for sacraments, if only for practical

in Schools and the politics of religion and diversity in the Republic of Ireland