The whole education system need to be redone from scratch. Fun fact, deaf people can’t become a teacher to teach deaf students due to this and also the requirement to have both English and Irish language. It’s crazy if you think about it. P.S. Oh and native French speaking teachers also can’t teach French in Ireland unless they have both English and Irish language qualification. We are in the age where students need to learn different languages to get into workforce. Spanish, Chinese, etc are important languages. I believe in protecting Irish language, I speak a minority language myself, but teachers of foreign languages or deaf teachers should get exemptions.

This is not right or fair. Even when I was doing my teacher training in N. Ireland in the 70's, catholic and secular student teachers were treated the same in regards to entry, course work etc. It was when Catholics were treated differently to Protestants in regards to voting, housing etc that the 'troubles' started.

I love my country, but the only word I can think of to describe this situation is "Ireland".

Oh and if you're going to publicly denounce this, perhaps you could publish statistics on how many protestant teachers are employed in Roman Catholic schools. I think you'll find it's not very many. So in most cases the only places a protestant teacher can get a job is CofI schools. Where as many Catholics work in CofI schools. This is a really unfair employment truth about teaching, so are we going to discuss all the issues or just the points issue which has a historical logic to it ie amalgamation from a stand alone smaller college, which had lower intake therefore obviously lower points. Let's look at all sides here to truly be fair shall we.

OK either complete ignorance on behalf of the author of this article or they didn't bother researching before writing this. The Church of Ireland College of Education decided to become part of DCU a few yrs ago but on the condition that they could still train teachers for Church of Ireland and other Protestant managed schools. So therefore they are and should be allowed to train teachers for their schools just as equally as teachers can be trained for Catholic schools. And obviously there are less Protestants in Ireland so as the Leaving Cert Points system is higher for courses with a higher demand and lower for courses with a lower demand then this will be the way for the foreseeable future! This comes up every year but only from people who lack understanding of the whole story!

Amazing situation which has been allowed to develop.

I am shocked to think this sort of thing still goes on 😲

You could also argue that a similar type of discrimination exists in favour of Gaeltacht students as their points are exaggurated🤗

I find in situations like this, finding a well built, solid wall (not western building systems obviously) and bashing your head against it gives the most relief.

So unfair

Beggars belief 😒 in the supposed age of educational inclusivity

And then there’s the reduced points and reserved places for Gaeltacht applicants.

Shocking...

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Is it any different to giving extra points for doing exams through Irish? After all, Irish is just another European language!

Anseo.net the problem is that powers that be sold out CICE and effectively closed it down to become part of secular DCU, an action which a lot of protestants disagreed with. The points system was like this when cice existed. Did you have a problem with it then? When they were a stand alone college in their own right with a small intake of protestant teachers, thence lower points? When they amalgamated, which was a terrible idea, as this original post proves, they asked to retain their own points system. I don't see the problem there. And you cannot talk about a secular school system Ireland's system IS NOT secular therefore there will be anomalies like this.