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In Ireland it is legally possible for schools to influence your child into a religious way of life, but only to some degree. In practice, the State and schools ignore this limit, and enforce their religious ethos in a way that is contrary to the ruling of the Supreme Court. ...
Atheist Ireland has asked the United Nations to raise religious discrimination in Irish schools when it next questions Ireland on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. We have also made a complaint to the Irish Comptroller and Auditor General about the misuse of public funds regarding the teaching of religion in ...
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Atheist Ireland has made this submission to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which is preparing its list of issues for its next questioning of Ireland. Contents and Questions Introduction to Atheist Ireland Article 2 — Progressive Realisation of Rights Article 6 — Right to Work ...
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Article 44.2.1 of the Constitution protects the right to freedom of conscience. This right is not just confined to a religious conscience. Atheists, humanists, and secular parents have exactly the same Constitutional rights with regard to our philosophical convictions as religious parents have with regard to their religious beliefs. In ...
The next Irish census will take place on 3 April 2022. It was postponed from last year due to the Covid pandemic. Atheist Ireland will be running a campaign asking people to answer the flawed religion question accurately, based on your current religious or nonreligious beliefs not your childhood religion or cultural ...
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Atheist Ireland has sent a major report to the Comptroller and Auditor General and the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee. We are arguing that the Department of Education and the NCCA are misusing public funds by ignoring constitutional conditions about the right to not attend religious education in schools. This is ...
