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Here is a list of press coverage of the 10th February 2015 Taoiseach Atheist Ireland meeting, including the Minister for Education as part of the dialogue process between Government and religious and nonreligious philosophical bodies. Quick links to the stories below: Irish Times - RTE - Examiner - Newstalk - The Guardian - Regional ...
On 10th February 2015 Atheist Ireland meet the Taoiseach and the Minister for Education, as part of the dialogue process between Government and religious and nonreligious philosophical bodies. This is the first time ever that an atheist advocacy group meet the Taoiseach. It marks the next phase of Atheist Ireland's ongoing campaign for ...
Atheist Ireland welcomes the comments of the Anglican Archbishop of Dublin regarding religious crests on school uniforms. In an article in the Sunday Independent Archbishop Michael Jackson (Anglican Archbishop of Dublin and Glendalough) said there should be "scope for negotiation" around the wearing of uniforms that display religious crests. Many ...
Atheist Ireland welcomes the above comments by Dr Ali Selim and invites the two publicly funded National schools under the patronage of the Islamic Foundation of Ireland to lead the way by including the children of atheists and secularists in their schools. The Islamic Foundation of Ireland is patron to ...
Ireland funds School Chaplains and it costs the taxpayer 9 million a year. This funding is meant to help parents with the religious education of their children in the general school environment of some publicly funded second level schools. The 9 million is allocated to Chaplains in Community schools and ...
Irish law effectively prohibits non-denominational secular schools based on human rights, despite the Irish Government telling the UN Human Rights Committee last month that there are no obstacles to establishing such schools in Ireland. The Government did outline two requirements to the UN, that the Government seemingly doesn't consider to ...
Last month Ireland appeared before the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva under the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (ICCPR). Every five years the UN questions Ireland in relation to their human rights obligations under the Covenant. In relation to the right to freedom of conscience and the ...
Educate Together has made two statements recently that undermine the duty of the Irish Government to provide secular education though new non-denominational schools, as required by the UN Human Rights Committee. Educate Together is doing this by blurring the distinction between multi-denominational schools (which Educate Together schools are) and non-denominational ...