This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email Editorial How the Catholic Church has harmed Ireland This week Atheist Ireland, along with the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland, raised with the Minister for Education the ...
This article is written by Peter Hinchliffe, who runs the Atheist Ireland Kerry Group. A few weeks ago a local paper asked if I could submit responses to questions raised by the issue of RTEs sketch showing the Abrahamic god being arrested for the rape of Mary. The Paper had also ...
Atheist Ireland, the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland, and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland have jointly written to the Minister for Education about religious discrimination in the hiring of Chaplains in ETB schools. The WRC found in a recent case that a Designated ETB Community College could not rely on Section 7 ...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by emai Editorial How the Catholic Church has harmed Ireland The Mother and Baby Homes report is the latest reminder of how the Catholic Church evangelised Irish culture, and why it is important to separate ...
In the aftermath of the Mother and Baby Homes report, Seamus McKenna outlines how the Irish Catholic Church has harmed our people, our schools, and our democracy. On the 12th of January 2021 the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and certain related matters in the Republic of ...
In Ireland atheists, humanists and the non-religious cannot take high office because of the requirement to take a religious oath in our Constitution. Atheist Ireland runs a ‘One Oath For All’ campaign, to enable conscientious atheists to hold the office of President, Judge, Taoiseach, or other members of the Council ...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial The Catholic Church evangelises cultures The Mother and Baby Homes report naively suggests that the Catholic Church merely reflected the values of Irish society. That is not correct. The Catholic Church ...
Atheist Ireland has sent the following letter to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. Dear BAI, We understand that RTE is reporting itself to the BAI for breaching your Code of Programme Standards regarding a comedy sketch broadcast on its New Years Eve Countdown show. While RTE has its own internal ...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email Editorial The Ghost of Ireland Past This week RTE backed down to demands that they remove a supposedly blasphemous comedy sketch from their online player. The sketch, by Waterford Whispers News, portrayed the ...
The right to freedom of conscience, religion and belief is one of the foundations of a democratic society. We have listed in this article over 150 religions that are recognised in Ireland, and ten nonreligious philosophical convictions that Human Rights law gives the same status as religious beliefs. Many people, ...