Catholic Bishops show their hypocrisy about freedom of conscience in two new abortion posts
15/03/2019 No Comments

Catholic Bishops show their hypocrisy about freedom of conscience in two new abortion posts

The Catholic Bishops are complaining that applicants for two new medical posts at the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin will be required to carry out elective abortions if appointed. The Bishops say that this “totally undermines the whole concept of freedom of conscience which was guaranteed in the recent legislation”. ...

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Secular Sunday #376 – How State Schools Break The Rules
10/03/2019 No Comments

Secular Sunday #376 – How State Schools Break The Rules

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How State Schools Break The Rules – New Report from Atheist Ireland
10/03/2019 No Comments

How State Schools Break The Rules – New Report from Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland has published a major new report titled How State Schools Break The Rules. It explains how the Department of Education, the ETBs, and the NCCA are breaching Constitutional and Human Rights and the IHREC Act in Religious Education in ETB schools. We will be using this report as the ...

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Secular Sunday #375 – The Constitutional right to opt out of religion classes
03/03/2019 No Comments

Secular Sunday #375 – The Constitutional right to opt out of religion classes

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Secular Sunday #374 – The new Junior Cycle religion course
24/02/2019 No Comments

Secular Sunday #374 – The new Junior Cycle religion course

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Blasphemy Repeal Bill 2019 forwarded to Attorney General for formal drafting
20/02/2019 No Comments

Blasphemy Repeal Bill 2019 forwarded to Attorney General for formal drafting

The Minister for Justice, Charlie Flanagan, has advised Atheist Ireland that the Bill designed to give legal effect to the outcome of last year’s blasphemy referendum has been forwarded from the Department of Justice to the Office of the Attorney General for formal Drafting. It is called the Repeal of ...

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Secular Sunday #373 – The power of science
17/02/2019 2 Comments

Secular Sunday #373 – The power of science

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Secular Sunday #372 – ETB schools breaching human rights
10/02/2019 No Comments

Secular Sunday #372 – ETB schools breaching human rights

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Secular Sunday #371 – Atheist Ireland welcomes Objective Sex Education report
03/02/2019 No Comments

Secular Sunday #371 – Atheist Ireland welcomes Objective Sex Education report

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Atheist Ireland welcomes Education Committee report supporting objective sex education
29/01/2019 No Comments

Atheist Ireland welcomes Education Committee report supporting objective sex education

Atheist Ireland welcomes the Oireachtas Education Committee report on Objective Sex Education. The report has recommended, as Atheist Ireland asked it to do, that the law must be changed to remove the role of ethos as a barrier to the objective and factual delivery of sex education curriculums. It has ...

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