Dialogue | 17.05.2008 | 20:30
Demand Up for Non-Denominational Schools in Northern Ireland
It’s now a year since Northern Ireland’s power-sharing government, comprising the Protestant Democratic Unionist Party and Catholic Sinn Fein, has been in office and relations between Northern Ireland's Catholics and Protestants are improving.
Its creation was a result of the landmark Good Friday agreement back in 1988. A sign of that is the increasing demand for non-denominational integrated schools.
Schools segregated along religious lines are still very much the norm in Northern Ireland. In fact, the first integrated school there opened in 1981 to a storm of protest from church leaders. But integrated schools are beginning to help bridge the divide for Northern Ireland’s next generation.
Report: Susanne Henn
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