Northern Ireland 2125?

You are a very confused person. See my posts in previous page and learn.

Remind us Irish people again which country invaded and occupies a part of which country???

your dangerous narrative

Go on and sum up what you think is dangerous?

My point is that its 'protestant' ethos is largely bumkin.

There are more Catholic kids in that school than COI kids. It would be the same with similar schools in Cork, like Aston and Midelton College. Maybe it was that way over 100 years ago, but it's certainly not that way now and has been that way for decades.

People would go to those schools because religion was largely absent from the circiulium, and the catholic kids and the parents who didn't want more indoctrination sent their kids to the COI schools to get away from religion, its ceremonies and the like.

Now with the advent of Educate Together, maybe that need has passed, but believe me, it was there for decades.

Like in 1916 when the foreign occupying British army killed more civilians in Dublin than they did Irish Volunteers???

…And the British killed civilians.

They ALL killed civilians. All of it inexcusable and wrong.

So where does it get us if we want to avoid it happening again?

You make sure that the circumstances in which violence will inevitably break out are not allowed to develop.

To understand what those circumstances were, you have to decide who had the power to prevent them arising.
In our case that was the British government who allowed a society to evolve and function as a sectarian bigoted and discriminatory society.

Again, HE said it was a Protestant school in his day and that he didn't get to play or meet with Catholics, if there were Catholics in the school back then he clearly was not mixing with them by his own admission, not mine.

Where did he ever mention he didn't mix with Catholics in school? It would be a pretty hard thing to do given the majority of the school were Catholic. Did you just make that bit up?

Have you a quote for where he says it was a "Protestant school"? He regularly attends award days and special events back at his old school, and is on record as saying the west Cork school had left a lasting imprint on him and once said he was "very honoured" to return to help launch a book about the school's history. So he is obviously very proud of the school, which has a Protestant ethos but has a lot of catholic students, as well as some Protestant students of course.

You are trying to nit-pick and attack him. At an awards ceremony since he became famous, he saw openly gay students at school there which he was surprised at. The average Protestant school in Ireland have have been more liberal and open minded than the average Catholic ethos school in Ireland when he was a student in the 1970s, but in Irish schools in those days I think it fair to say nobody was openly gay. You forget that Homosexuality was not decriminalized in Ireland until June 24, 1993, with the passage of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993. This legislation repealed laws that criminalized same-sex sexual acts between adult males, effectively ending the criminalization of homosexuality.

The point was he said he felt isolated growing up as a Protestant in those days, and the Protestant community was under siege. He said his religion did leave him largely friendless when he was growing up in Bandon in Co Cork. He said: "If you married outside of the faith there was real pressure for the kids to be brought up Catholic and priests would make people convert." 

Of course Irish society has changed a bit since Graham Norton was young.

Right so he never said he never played with Catholic kids while at school..

Glad we cleared that up.

You made up the first paragraph. Read the article. The school was mixed in that it had both Catholics and protestants.

He wrote "I remember when we moved to Bandon for the first time during the summer holidays and it was amazing and I played with all these kids and was invited to birthday parties.

"It was great and come September there was much excitement about going to school and it was revealed I wasn't going to their school. I never really saw them again. That was the ending. We all recognised that we were different and that's what would happen."

The implication was that he was not invited to birthday parties of local kids after the summer holidays ended and they found out what school he was going to be going to. He spoke of his isolation in Cork and the feeling that the Protestant community was under siege.

Now be honest and admit you made up the first paragraph.

Oh, and blanch never afaik said what you claimed he said: he actually wrote in post 1160: "

"And nobody was claiming that all young Southern Protestants were excluded by their peers growing up in the same way.

Certainly enough of them did though that they left this country behind in the same manner that Graham Norton did, and that was a loss to this country."

He was under the same pressure to meet and marry within his own community that Catholics were.

The proclamations that it is not a Protestant school are cute but the evidence says it is being run under the auspices of The Incorporated Society for Promoting Protestant Schools in Ireland, also known as the Charter Schools.

How many Catholics attended in Norton's day I don't know.