President Michael D Higgins has stated that the teaching of children in Northern Ireland separately can no longer be justified.

Mr Higgins told The Late Late Show that segregating children in the North according to their religious denominations is “abandoning them to parcels of hate and memory that others are manipulating”. He did not provide direct evidence for this.

“Who in 2021 can justify the teaching of children separately on the basis of belief? Is it important if you talk about an ethical present and an ambitious future that you deal with it,” he said.