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Secular Sunday #505 – Another school year starts
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Another school year starts Another school year is starting, and schools will as usual find various ways to try to prevent students from not attending religious instruction. Some schools will say ...
Atheist Ireland has written the following letter to the Oireachtas joint committee on Education, about not attending Religious Instruction in schools, and the recent anti-abortion video shown in a school. We would like the Committee to take the following into account when it reaches the stage of addressing our legal opinion ...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Atheist Ireland meets Lord Mayor of Dublin Atheist Ireland this week became the first atheist group to meet with the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alison Gilliland, as part of the traditional ...
Atheist Ireland this week became the first atheist group to meet with the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alison Gilliland, as part of the traditional greeting meetings that take at the start of a new Lord Mayor’s term of office. Typically these meetings include the President, the Taoiseach, the Catholic and ...
According to an article in the Sunday independent today, a religion teacher in the Ursuline secondary school in Tipperary played an anti-abortion and unscientific video to students. This is relevant to an issue that Atheist Ireland wrote about three years ago, when we sought information under the Freedom of Information ...
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 versus democracy Niall Stokes has written a powerful article in Hot Press about why the Catholic Church should have nothing to do with the new national maternity hospital, given its ...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial One Oath for All The Irish Government is disgracefully arguing at the European Court of Human Rights that the religious oaths for President and members of the Council of State are ...
It is disgraceful that the Irish Government is arguing at the European Court of Human Rights that the religious oath for President and members of the Council of State are “necessary in a democratic society.” The Government is contesting a legal challenge to the religious oath by Roisin Shortall TD, John ...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email Editorial What will the UN Special Envoy do? This week the Government appointed Katherine Zappone as Special Envoy to the UN on Freedom of Expression. Many people have rightly highlighted the lack of ...