{"id":611746,"date":"2026-09-02T01:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T01:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/611746\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T01:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T01:04:17","slug":"catholic-orgs-tell-un-about-irish-state-education-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/611746\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic orgs tell UN about Irish State education discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic education organisations have raised the discriminatory effects of Irish State education policy at the United Nations, highlighting the ban on Catholic primary schools prioritising Catholic children in cases of oversubscription.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/catholiceducation.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/CEP-Submission_UPR-Ireland-2026-FINAL.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joint submission<\/a> to the UN Human Rights Council\u2019s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was made by the Catholic Education Partnership (CEP), alongside the International Organisation for the Right to Education and Freedom of Education (OIDEL), the European Committee for Catholic Education (CEEC), and the International Office of Catholic Education (OIEC).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Get unlimited access to Gript<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catholic education organisations have raised the discriminatory effects of Irish State education policy at the United Nations, highlighting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,259180,61,60,12684],"class_list":["post-611746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-catholic-education-partnership","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611746","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=611746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}