Medjugorje Silenced?
Over the last two years, representatives of Atheist Ireland have had more than a dozen guest articles carried in the Northern Standard. This is a weekly newspaper published in Monaghan, with a circulation of more than 15,000. At the start of January 2015, one such article was censored based on the ...
How the Irish State misled the UN about religious discrimination in schools
The Irish State twice misled the UN yesterday in Geneva about religious discrimination in access to schools. In both cases, Atheist Ireland was there to explain the true position to the UN Committee, to enable them to question Ireland more accurately. Firstly, when answering questions about religious discrimination in access ...
Is Christianity Blasphemous To Christians?
Atheist Ireland has campaigned consistently against the blasphemy laws in Ireland. This position has been primarily driven by the international responsibilities of our country but we have also highlighted the chilling effect of this legislation in Ireland. A new example of censorship due to blasphemy was experienced this week, when ...
Atheist Ireland at the UN
Following the UN Children's Rights Committee questioning of Ireland today in Geneva, Atheist Ireland is confident that the UN will yet again tell Ireland to stop breaching the human rights of atheist and minority faith families in Irish schools. Atheist Ireland had very positive interactions with the Committee here, during ...
Irish Blasphemy Laws Are Six Years Old Today
Today is the sixth anniversary of the Defamation Act 2009 commencing in Ireland, including Section 36 on Blasphemy. Many Irish people will be aware of the chilling effect that this legislation has at home. For example, our blasphemy laws cause harmless comedy sketches to be censored, just in case some may find ...
Why Do Bishops Charge So Much For School Text Books?
"Grow In Love" - 20% more expensive than next priced text book. The Irish Catholic Bishop's Conference, through their agency Veritas Publications, are the monopoly provider of religious text books to all Catholic schools in Ireland. In the context of this monopoly, their new "Grow In Love" text book for ...
Educate Together distances itself from its own policy and ethos
An Educate Together AGM motion this year called for admission policies that, if implemented, would indirectly discriminate against Catholics. Atheist Ireland opposes this. Educate Together has published a statement that attributes absurdity, dishonesty and ignorance to Atheist Ireland's analysis of this. We agree with Educate Together's conclusion that "facts are important." So let us look at ...
Discrimination Against Catholics Should Be Opposed Too
The Catholic Church retains a virtual monopoly on school patronage in Ireland. They use this monopoly to discriminate against non-Catholic citizens within our public education system. This is a scandal, which must end. However, the solution to this discrimination is not to create an equal amount of indirect discrimination in ...
Bishops Secretly Awarded €500,000 Annually, in Public Contracts
Atheist Ireland has uncovered evidence of excess of €500,000 of public funds awarded in secret to the Catholic Church. Atheist Ireland has submitted Freedom of Information requests to a small sample of the Irish third level educational institutions, which deliver courses to adult citizens. These are entirely secular institutions, with no ...
The Association of Catholic Priests Supports Anti-Scientific Creationist Teaching in Catholic Schools
The Association of Catholic Priests Supports Anti-Scientific Creationist Teaching in Catholic Schools. While the Roman Catholic Church is broadly supportive of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection, their formal doctrine continues to insist on "human exceptionalism". That is, the Church requires that some dogmatic qualifications are applied to the ...