Secular Sunday # 226 ‘Mass Media: RTE’s Pro Catholic Bias
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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 ...
Secular Sunday # 225 ‘Send In The Clowns’
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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 ...
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 ...
Secular Sunday # 224 – He Hath Blasphemed
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If you are not religious, tick ‘No Religion’ in the census
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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 ...
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 ...
Secular Sunday #223 – Make Sure You Count: Census 2016
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