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28/07/2019 No Comments Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #396 – How a secular State protects a pluralist society

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21/07/2019 No Comments Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #395 – The census and religion

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14/07/2019 No Comments Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #394 – A slightly less flawed census question

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12/07/2019 No Comments Atheist Ireland

Please ask your TDs to ensure that all abuse victims in Louise O’Keeffe case get compensation

Please contact your local TDs and ask them to ensure that all the victims of abuse in Irish schools, similar to that in the Louise O'Keeffe case, get justice and compensation. The Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar has apologised to victims of abuse in day schools. But the State has for the ...

11/07/2019 No Comments Atheist Ireland

Minimalist change to census question on religion will not stop rise of the nonreligious

The minimalist change to the religion question in the 2021 Irish census will mask, but not stop, the relentless increase in the number of nonreligious people in Ireland. Some change to the religion question was inevitable, as the results were increasingly not reflecting reality, but this is the smallest improvement ...

07/07/2019 No Comments Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #393 – Atheist Ireland tells Taoiseach of need for ethical secularism

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04/07/2019 No Comments Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland calls for ethical secularism at meeting with Taoiseach and Government

Michael Nugent and Jane Donnelly of Atheist Ireland are today calling for an ethical secular State at a meeting of the Dialogue Process between the Taoiseach, the Government, Churches, and Non-confessional Bodies, in Dublin Castle. The meeting is addressing three themes: Effective Structured Dialogue, Inclusive and Diverse Communities, and Education. ...

30/06/2019 No Comments Ashling O'Brien

Secular Sunday #392 – Remembering Grania Spingies

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29/06/2019 1 Comment Atheist Ireland

Remembering Grania Spingies (video and photos from her memorial event)

Grania Spingies died on Sunday 16 June 2019, a week before her 49th birthday. She was a founding member and first secretary of Atheist Ireland, and a contributor to Jerry Coyne's website Why Evolution is True. Her family and friends gathered to remember her in Glanmire, Cork, on Thursday 27 ...

25/06/2019 No Comments Michael Nugent

How parents stopped Castleknock Educate Together school using Catholic agency Accord to deliver sex education

Guest post by Graeme Carter, of the parents' group No Accord in Educate Together As of Friday 7th June, the Catholic charity agency Accord will no longer be delivering the Relationship and Sex Education curriculum in Castleknock Educate Together National School. The school’s announcement of this fact was a pleasant ...

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