Atheist Ireland | October 2015

25/10/2015 Atheist Ireland

Archbishop of Dublin to decide if five year old boys are right kind of Catholic for school

The Admission policy of a publicly funded National School, St. John the Baptist in Clontarf, states that the Archbishop of Dublin, “shall be the person who decides whether a boy is a member of a Church which is in full communion with the Church of Rome or otherwise”. This is ...

25/10/2015 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #200 – Arbitrary Milestone Edition

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24/10/2015 Atheist Ireland

Submission to Department of Justice for UN review of Ireland

Atheist Ireland submission for UN Human Rights Council review of Ireland: Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the Department of Justice as part of the process of Ireland being reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Council next year. Contents 1. About Atheist Ireland 2. Recommendations 3. Freedom ...

20/10/2015 John Hamill

Educate Together distances itself from its own policy and ethos

An Educate Together AGM motion this year called for admission policies that, if implemented, would indirectly discriminate against Catholics. Atheist Ireland opposes this. Educate Together has published a statement that attributes absurdity, dishonesty and ignorance to Atheist Ireland's analysis of this. We agree with Educate Together's conclusion that "facts are important." So let us look at ...

18/10/2015 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #199 – Secularist Elite

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18/10/2015 Atheist Ireland

Professor Conway invents a bogeyman of an Irish “subcultural secularist elite”

In a recent talk to the Iona Institute, Rev. Professor Eamonn Conway, head of Theology and Religious Studies at Mary Immaculate College, invented a bogeyman that he calls a “subcultural secular elite” to frighten Catholics into thinking that their control of the education system is under immediate threat. Rev. Professor Conway ...

17/10/2015 John Hamill

Discrimination Against Catholics Should Be Opposed Too

Atheist Ireland Opposes Discrimination Against Catholics by Educate Together. The Catholic Church retains a virtual monopoly on school patronage in Ireland. They use this monopoly to discriminate against non-Catholic citizens within our public education system. This is a scandal, which must end. However, the solution to this discrimination is not ...

11/10/2015 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #198 – Come the Day

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08/10/2015 John Hamill

Bishops Secretly Awarded €500,000 Annually, in Public Contracts

Atheist Ireland has uncovered evidence of excess of €500,000 of public funds awarded in secret to the Catholic Church. Atheist Ireland has submitted Freedom of Information requests to a small sample of the Irish third level educational institutions, which deliver courses to adult citizens. These are entirely secular institutions, with no ...

08/10/2015 Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland recommendations to OSCE on equality for atheists

Atheist Ireland recommendations to OSCE on equality for atheists Atheist Ireland has made the following recommendations to the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) after taking part in the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, Poland, last week. A - Overall Recommendations for Sessions 14 and 15 1. ...