In Reply to: local vec's posted by Realist on January 31, 2010 at 22:19:07:

O.K. My point here is that national educational structures like local VEC's have been asked to respond to this vacuum of school provision; to deal with the situation whereby parents have no choice but to enroll a child into a single faith school.

Ireland is not the country it was 20 years ago. Looking at the 2006 census, the second most numerous group was the group that ticked the box for "no religion." At 182,000, it was quite a seizable number.