Atheist Ireland | April 2016

24/04/2016 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday # 226 ‘Mass Media: RTE’s Pro Catholic Bias

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21/04/2016 Atheist Ireland

Dublin Anarchist Bookfair breaks agreement with Atheist Ireland

In a parallel to the ongoing pattern of regressive groups ‘disinviting’ and ‘no-platforming’ speakers with whom they disagree, the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair has unilaterally broken an agreement with Atheist Ireland that we would host an information stall at their event last weekend. They thus prevented people attending the event from ...

17/04/2016 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday # 225 ‘Send In The Clowns’

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15/04/2016 Atheist Ireland

The tangled web of financial rules for political campaign groups

Atheist Ireland complies with the various pieces of legislation that regulate the funding and payment for political campaigning in Ireland. Unlike some other groups with secular or religious political aims, we are all volunteers, but we have managed to ensure that our funding and donations are accountable. Unfortunately, we are ...

11/04/2016 John Hamill

HEA Confirms Large Public Endowments to Catholic Church

At the request of the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), the Higher Education Authority (HEA) has arranged a presentation from Atheist Ireland in relation to the probity of contracts awarded to the Roman Catholic Church by third level colleges. New information has been provided to the HEA by Atheist Ireland ...

10/04/2016 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday # 224 – He Hath Blasphemed

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08/04/2016 Atheist Ireland

If you are not religious, tick ‘No Religion’ in the census

Please share this with anyone who lives in Ireland. Thank you.

08/04/2016 Atheist Ireland

Background information for UN human rights review of Ireland

This page describes human rights breaches in Ireland that Sir Nigel Rodley has described as being connected to: "The institutional belief system that has predominated in the State Party, and which occasionally has sought to dominate the State Party" The page is a resource for United Nations delegates who are ...

04/04/2016 Atheist Ireland

How Atheist Ireland is briefing the UN on religious discrimination

Last week Atheist Ireland told a meeting of United Nations state delegates in Geneva that Ireland's Constitution is incompatible with our human rights obligations in freedom of religion, blasphemy laws, religious discrimination in schools and religious oaths for politicians and judges. Atheist Ireland attended and spoke at the Pre-Session of ...

03/04/2016 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #223 – Make Sure You Count: Census 2016

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