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TD Claims Single-Sex Schools Are Contributory Factor In Domestic Violence

Labour's education and enterprise spokesman Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has claimed that single-sex schools ar...
Sarah Stacey
Sarah Stacey

5:40 PM - 10 Dec 2020



The Last Word With Matt Cooper

TD Claims Single-Sex Schools Are Contributory Factor In Domestic Violence

Sarah Stacey
Sarah Stacey

5:40 PM - 10 Dec 2020

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Labour's education and enterprise spokesman Aodhán Ó Ríordáin has claimed that single-sex schools are a contributory factor in the "toxic male culture" that leads to domestic violence.

Speaking in the Dáil, Ó Ríordáin said that Ireland had a disproportionate number of single-sex schools that was "completely out of kilter with European norms", and that "nobody can convince me that that isn't part of the problem".

Is he right?

We asked Noeline Blackwell, chief executive of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, and Arthur Godsil, director of Godsil Education and a former headmaster of St Andrew's College in Booterstown, to tell us their views.

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