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Caitriona Ruane may have given Enda Kenny the run around during last weekend's but back at Stormont she's having to bat away opposition from several different directions. The minister is under pressure from schools who haven't got money for their , and parents angered by cuts in funding for summer schemes for children attending special schools.

Then a short time ago some young people held a boisterous protest on the steps at Stormont against the minister's decision to cut her department's community relations budget by an estimated 70%. The protestors argue that allowing around 26 projects to go to the wall would be "foolish, untimely and would ultimately endorse a divided and sectarian society." The minister argues that she wants to in order to be less dependent on external organisations, instead giving schools themselves a more important role to play. The protestors on the steps today, who were joined by a number of MLAs, weren't convinced.

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