Denominational schools have a right to protect their ethos, and require legislative provisions to enable them to do 
so, Fr Michael Drumm (pictured), chairman of the Catholic Schools Partnership, told an Iona Institute conference on denominational schools yesterday.
Fr Drumm told the conference, entitled “Denominational Education in a Pluralist Society” that proposals to amend rules which allow denominational schools to permeate the day with their own ethos would “undermine the characteristic spirit” of such schools.
You can read his talk, entitled “The Future of Catholic Primary Schools in a Pluralist Society”, here [1].