Interesting Places # 74 - Ireland

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According to the Guardian newspaper, around 98% of Ireland's schools are run by the Roman Catholic Church.

(The problem arises when in some areas 48 percent of students are non-Catholic, but when there are too many students to choose from, the church is entitled by law to prefer a Catholic one. This means that emergency schools have been set up to provide education to the children of incoming workers.)