Atheist Ireland | January 2018

31/01/2018 Atheist Ireland

Minister for Education to review ETB schools paying Catholic Church to train students to evangelise

The Minister for Education has told Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger that he will review the practice of ETB schools paying the Roman Catholic Church to train students in faith leadership. Last month Atheist Ireland revealed details of these controversial courses, that train some students to evangelise others, through our freedom ...

28/01/2018 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #318 – Making sense of the census

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23/01/2018 Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland attends meeting of Census Advisory Group on Religion Question for 2021 census

Atheist Ireland attended a three-hour meeting yesterday of the Census Advisory Group on the religion question for the 2021 census. We had previously made this written submission to the process. At the meeting, we added the arguments outlined in this report. We will report later on the content of the meeting. The ...

21/01/2018 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #317 – Catholic Church controls Sex Education in Irish schools

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16/01/2018 Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland to attend meeting of Census 2021 Advisory Group on Religion question

Atheist Ireland will be attending a meeting next Monday of the Census 2021 Advisory Group on the questions of Religion and Ethnicity. The meeting will take place in the Central Statistics Office. Atheist Ireland has proposed changes to the religion question. Our proposals are that the question should be optional, ...

16/01/2018 Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland asks IHREC to recommend strengthening SIPO law

This weekend, the Citizens' Assembly has recommended strengthening the laws governing political parties and campaign groups that are seeking a particular outcome in a referendum. It has recommended equal public funding for both sides, limits on spending, and a ban on anonymous donations. Atheist Ireland agrees with these recommendations, just ...

15/01/2018 Atheist Ireland

FOI documents reveal Atheist Ireland’s impact on review of religion in ETB schools

Based on new documents obtained under Freedom of Information Act, and on our meeting with the Department of Education last month, Atheist Ireland is optimistic that the Minister for Education will soon issue a Circular Letter about the timetabling of religion in ETB schools, that we requested the Minister to ...

14/01/2018 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #316 -We should vote at religiously neutral polling stations

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07/01/2018 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #315 – Voting on abortion, blasphemy, and women in the home

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06/01/2018 Atheist Ireland

The SIPO law was strengthened in 2015 to deal with Youth Defence. It needs to be strengthened further.

The SIPO law was strengthened in 2015, to deal with Youth Defence’s refusal to comply with it, after Youth Defence had published billboard advertisements showing images of young, distraught women and foetuses, and carrying slogans such as ‘Abortion tears her life apart.’ It is now essential that the SIPO law is ...