Atheist Ireland | December 2019

29/12/2019 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #418 – Celebrating Nic Johnson

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29/12/2019 Atheist Ireland

Celebrating Nic Johnson

Our good friend Nic Johnson is nearing the end of his exceptional 85 years of life. He has spent most of those years promoting atheism, humanism, and secularism with passion and integrity. Before he moved to Ireland, he campaigned for abortion rights in America, during an era when campaigners promoted ...

Secular Sunday #417 – Happy Secular Christmas!

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15/12/2019 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #416 – NCCA ignores school ethos problem

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11/12/2019 Atheist Ireland

NCCA report avoids the question of how to deliver objective sex education

The NCCA has failed to recommend that the Education Act be amended to ensure that students get objective sex education that is not influenced by a religious school ethos. Its new report has simply described the problem of ethos, instead of addressing how to resolve it. And the Minister for ...

Tackling prejudice-motivated crime and protecting freedom of expression

[Pictured above is David Kaye, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the freedom of opinion and expression, whose recommendations form part of this document] Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the Department of Justice's consultation on hate crime and hate speech laws. We ...

Secular Sunday #415 – Merry Christmas Season

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01/12/2019 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #414 -Schools still discriminate on access

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