{"id":517865,"date":"2026-06-25T14:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517865\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:38:08","slug":"podcast-local-church-of-ireland-rector-on-primary-schools-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/517865\/","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: Local Church of Ireland rector on primary schools survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local Church of Ireland rector says a recent survey confirms people want no change to the religious status of primary schools.<\/p>\n<p>Over 70 per cent of parents in Longford want primary schools to be religious.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Education survey, the rate is over 65 per cent in Roscommon and 63 per cent in Leitrim.<\/p>\n<p>Eoghan Murphy has been speaking to Church of Ireland rector in Longford, Reverend Simon Scott.<\/p>\n<p>He first asked him what he made of the findings:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A local Church of Ireland rector says a recent survey confirms people want no change to the religious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-517865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}