Finally published in the Irish Times Letters Page after over a decade of intermittently trying. Happy it’s this one!

Sir, – Mark Hennessy reports that the end of segregation in Northern Ireland is a long way off (“Ending of segregation in Northern Ireland a long way off, report finds”, Home News, March 13th), noting that while 67 per cent of parents want integrated schools to be the norm, only 8 per cent of pupils attend them.

Thankfully, things are very different “down South,” where 65 per cent of parents want a multidenominational primary system – yet less than 5 per cent of schools fit that description.

When it comes to education, North and South seem to be reading from the same segregated syllabus. – Yours, etc,

SIMON LEWIS,