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05/04/2011 nozzferrahhtoo

The really, truly True Believer™ of the Month Award March 2011

Child Abuse figured heavily in this month’s polling results for the award. As usual when it appears the Vatican figured high in the polls. This month’s claim from their Top Exorcist is that the increase in child sex abuse and rape claims is the fault of Satan waging war on ...

18/03/2011 Michael Nugent

Atheist Ireland response to European Court ruling on crucifixes in classrooms

The European Court of Human Rights today ruled that Italian State schools may display crucifixes on classroom walls, overturning an earlier judgment to the contrary. Today's judgment lays down many important points of human rights law in favour of secularism, and it leaves open the possibility of further legal challenges ...

11/03/2011 Michael Nugent

Atheist Ireland welcomes new forum on Catholic patronage of Irish schools

Atheist Ireland welcomes the decision by Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn to establish a forum to identify how schools can be transferred out of Catholic patronage as a matter of immediate priority. We hope to participate as fully as possible in this forum as an advocacy group for an ethical ...

10/03/2011 nozzferrahhtoo

The really, truly True Believer™ of the Month Award February 2011

South Dakota has put itself on the map of Truly True winners for Feburary by giving us a tale that sounds like it should be taller than their very own Mount Rushmore. A bill under construction in the stranger of the States is moving to make preventing harm to a ...

05/03/2011 Michael Nugent

Attend the World Atheist Convention in Dublin, Ireland, June 3-5 2011

You can now buy discounted early-bird tickets for the World Atheist Convention in the O'Callaghan Alexander Hotel in Dublin, Ireland, from 3-5 June 2011. The Convention, co-hosted by Atheist Ireland, will see the launch of the new Atheist Alliance International, the world umbrella group for atheist advocacy groups. Click here ...

01/03/2011 Michael Nugent

Atheist Ireland submission to Programme for Government negotiating teams

Atheist Ireland has sent the following submission to the members of the Fine Gael and Labour Party negotiating teams for the Programme for Government. As you begin setting out an agreed Programme for Government for the incoming administration, Atheist Ireland wants to congratulate your parties on your recent successes. We ...

23/02/2011 Michael Nugent

The God Delusion or Solution? Michael Nugent debates Hamza Tzortzis

As part of Islamic Awareness Month in Ireland, Michael Nugent debated Hamza Tzortzis on the topic God Delusion or Solution in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Here's an extract followed by the full debate: Extract: Atheism, Islam, Morality and the Quran Part 1: Opening Address by Hamza Tzortzis ...

23/02/2011 Michael Nugent

How did the parties and candidates reply to our questions on secular policies?

Atheist Ireland and the Humanist Association of Ireland are asking voters to vote for candidates who support secular policies in the Irish General Election this Friday. We realise that most people will vote based on economic policies or party allegiance. In such cases we are asking people that, if several ...

15/02/2011 Grania

Secular analysis of the Fine Gael manifesto

Written by Dr. Conor McGrath The main election manifesto of Fine Gael – titled ‘Let’s Get Ireland Working – can be found at http://www.finegael.ie/upload/docs/Manifesto.pdf. The document is lengthy and detailed, covering the whole range of government Departments and public sector activity. As the title indicates, there is a strong concentration ...

13/02/2011 Grania

Secular analysis of the Workers' Party manifesto

Written by Dr Conor McGrath The main election manifesto of the Workers’ Party can be found at http://www.workerspartyireland.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wpmanifesto.pdf. The document is fairly brief, and concentrates very heavily on economic policy. However, one section will be of interest to those with a secular perspective. Part of the discussion on political reform ...

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