Mr John Colgan of the Campaign to Separate Church and State and Mr Dick Spicer of the Humanist Association have lodged a complaint with the Attorney General. They claim the civil and constitutional rights of children, parents and teachers are undermined by a November 1996 agreement on the management of primary schools.
This agreement aims to protect, with one exception, the religious and denominational ethos of such schools, and envisages "the preclusion of admittance or entry to national schools on grounds of religious persuasion", they state.