Although those schools are state-funded, their Catholic Church patrons set the admission guidelines, giving Catholic children priority enrollment over non-Catholics in a crowded system. He emphasized that Catholic schools would welcome any student who wanted to join, as long as there was a place for them. Fiona's family has since moved to Leixlip, a commuter town west of Dublin, where overcrowding is less of a problem, but finding a secular school is. Within 10 days of lodging her case, Murphy says she was offered a building where they could open a secular school. Faolán was placed on a waiting list for a secular school the day she came off maternity leave.

Source: CNN August 25, 2018 03:56 UTC