The author of this piece, Eamonn McCann, is a Northern Ireland radical in the mould of Trotsky or Saul Alinski. This faction, North and South will seek to exploit this report in Ireland’s “culture war”, which is far more intense and pitiless than even the US. The target is the role of the Church(s) in education (how can we now trust them with children?) and Health, and to remove the strong Pro-life and Pro-family elements from Ireland’s written constitution.
That's interesting. I think you're right, btw, that this is actually part of a strategy to remove the Church from any participation in education. The left followed a similar strategy in Spain years ago, as far back as the 19th century, because it wanted the State alone to control education. Things don't change much over the centuries.