Enoch Burke turns up to school again despite sacking - read OP before posting

But they are not scoring the person on their own faith, they are scoring the person on how they would teach faith

My children go to a Catholic school and id expect the teachers to be teaching some Catholic stuff, cant see anything wrong with that .

If youir a teacher that doesnt like catholics why not go to a non religion or protestant school to teach ??

We have now gone completely off topic from Enoch Burke, but at the same time, if you cannot see how pathetic that argument is in respect of National School - NATIONAL being the important word - then there is not a lot of chance of equality of belief/non belief. If you are referring to a private Catholic school then fair enough, no argument.

To quote from the third of your articles:

Section 37 of the Employment Equality Act provides for an exception to the general prohibition on discrimination on religious grounds. The exception allows a religious, education or medical institution to treat an employee more favourably than another employee, where it is reasonable to do so in order to maintain the religious ethos of the institution, or where it takes action which is reasonably necessary to prevent an employee or a prospective employee from undermining the religious ethos of the institution.

The Court held that this section should be “ascribed a narrow orbit and it can only avail an employer where the conditions in which it is expressed to operate actually apply.” The Court held that the school “did not adduce any evidence on which it could be held that the canvassing of the private views of candidates for the post in issue on the question of religious patronage and pluralism was reasonable or necessary in order to maintain the religious ethos of the school”. The Court also found that there was no evidence to suggest that “whatever views the Complainant had on that topic would impact on her capacity to act in good faith and with loyalty to the school.”

The article you posted outlining the Labour Court's position disproves your point completely.

Thanks Renko - your investigative skills were always a bit lacking but hey, let's be careful out there.. :P

Do you really NOT know the answer to that question...??

Teachers having to lie their way through interviews in religious schools is not a novel concept.

It is, when they don’t actually have to lie. The fact that some candidates DO lie however, is not a novel concept, and certainly not restricted to the realm of employment in education. I’m sure we can agree that we’ve both been privy to instances of candidates embellishing their answers in interviews regardless of the employer or the role they were interviewing for?

Candidates literally were graded on their faith in the school that I was involved with. That's literally what happened, with the Chairperson reporting to the Board as to which candidates were seen as 'a good Catholic' (that's a literal quote from the Chairperson at the time.

And like I said, I don’t doubt your claims of something which you were privy to. Where we’re running into an issue is at the point where you claim that what you experienced is generally applicable even to primary schools. It’s not.

id wonder where the church got the lands in the first place, I doubt too much was bought at a fair price with honestly earned money.

I have interviewed hundreds of teachers. I have never sat on an interview panel where a candidate has been asked about their own personal faith, never mind being "marked" on it.

However you clearly know best because you were once on a BOM.

Not that anyone would admit anyway!