Atheist Ireland’s third Annual General meeting will take place this weekend, on Saturday 9 April 2011, in the Gresham Metropole Hotel in Cork. Here is a review of the work that we have done since our second AGM in July 2010. 1. Secular Irish Constitution and laws 2. Secular Irish education ...
Atheist Ireland’s third Annual General meeting will take place this weekend, on Saturday 9 April 2011, in the Gresham Metropole Hotel in Cork. Here is a review of the work that we have done since our second AGM in July 2010. 1. Secular Irish Constitution and laws 2. Secular Irish education ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
