In the 1990s we had a culture where there was an assumption that particular kinds of employment were off-limits to Irish people – but that shouldn't be so in the future. – Taoiseach Enda Kenny warns Irish people that they have to take up all kinds of work
There is a strong move to reduce the number of schools under church control, yet at the same time on a local level most parents still want their children to attend schools with at least generic religious inspiration. There are very few alternatives available, and Catholic schools welcome children of all faiths and none. This shows that the Catholic Church is open and welcoming to children of different cultural backgrounds, but it has inevitably contributed to an erosion of the concept of what a Catholic school truly is. – Archbishop Diarmuid Martin urges the Government to foster "truly Catholic" schools