Sir, – Your article on the Church of Ireland Synod (Home News, May 11th), omits to mention that a motion was passed asking the General Synod Board of Education to review the proposed integration of the Church of Ireland College of Education (CICE) with St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra and Mater Dei Institute under the auspices of DCU. This proposed integration with DCU would have ended the 90-year association that CICE has had with Trinity College.
However, it does quote Adrian Oughton, where he was referring to negotiations with Trinity and said, “Trinity by its actions in effect refused to accept as undergraduates Protestant young men and women who wish to be primary teachers’’. This comment has no basis in reality.
I am aware that Trinity College authorities are willing to engage with the authorities in CICE and are keen to accept the Protestant young people who wish to train as primary teachers. – Yours, etc,
NORMAN HENRY,
Bruckless,
Co Donegal.