Atheist Ireland submission to Department of Education on school enrolment
This is a link to Atheist Ireland's submission to the Department of Education's discussion paper on a regulatory framework for school enrolment, submitted to the Department today. Atheist Ireland submission to Department of Education on school enrolment
Five questions on secular issues for the Irish Presidential candidates
Atheist Ireland has written to the seven Presidential candidates asking them five questions about secular issues that are relevant to the position of President, like we did with the political parties and candidates in the last General Election. We will publish the results when we receive them. Mary Davis is ...
Presidential candidates reply to questions on secular issues
Atheist Ireland is asking voters to consider the position of candidates on secular issues before voting for President on Thursday. Four of the seven Presidential candidates have committed to recognising equally the rights of atheist and agnostic citizens if elected President, in replies to questions from Atheist Ireland. Currently an ...
Atheist Ireland report from OSCE human rights conference in Poland
Every year in Warsaw, Poland the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) organizes a two-week conference called the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM). The HDIM is a forum where OSCE participating States together with Partners for Co-operation, civil society, OSCE institutions and field operations and other international ...
Update on the campaign against the Irish blasphemy law
This is an update on the ongoing work that we have been doing in the campaign against the Irish blasphemy law, which is still on the Irish statute books. Our campaign against this law took a different and less confrontational focus when the previous Justice Minister accepted that the law ...
Atheist Ireland meets Irish Government Forum on Primary Education
Yesterday, Tuesday September 6, Michael Nugent and Jane Donnelly attended the Department of Education’s Forum on Patronage and Pluralism in the Primary Sector. We were there to elaborate on, and answer questions about, the written submission that Atheist Ireland previously made to the Forum. We were questioned by the Advisory ...
Dublin Declaration on Secularism and the Place of Religion in Public Life
On Sunday 5 June 2011, the World Atheist Convention in Dublin discussed and adopted the following declaration on secularism and the place of religion in public life. Please discuss and promote it with your friends and colleagues, and if you are a a member of an atheist, humanist or secular ...
Blog Round-up after the Conference
Here's a round-up of some of the thoughts on the conference from various people around the web. UPDATE: A Gloriously Godless Weekend (Part 1 )from Adventures of a Middle-Aged Boy is up: "The weekend began – as all weekends should – on Thursday." Part 2 is here and Part 3 ...