O’Keeffe refuses to meet bishop over school row [Thepost.ie]

A row over the funding of Protestant schools by the state has escalated, with education minister Batt O’Keeffe refusing to meet the Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork over the issue.

O’Keeffe told fellow TDs at a parliamentary party meeting that he was refusing a request from Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan to meet Bishop Paul Colton. Several sources told The Sunday Business Post that O’Keeffe had said: ‘‘I can tell you now I won’t be meeting the man.”

 

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