Katie Levine of Atheist Ireland told RTE's Liveline this week the name of the Irish schoolbook that promoted Catholic theologian and sex abuser Jean Vanier to children. TD Cathal Crowe had recalled the book the previous day but had not named it. It was Alive-O, a Catholic religion book that ...
Atheist Ireland welcomes today’s concluding observations about Ireland from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. We were in Geneva last month when the Committee questioned Ireland, and the Committee has made all of the recommendations we asked for. The UN has told Ireland to remove all ...
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Two years ago the government proposed a new public holiday to mark the efforts of frontline workers during the Covid pandemic. The most obvious way to do that would have been to call it the Frontline Workers Public Holiday, or the February Bank Holiday dedicated to the frontline workers during ...
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This week Atheist Ireland was in Geneva for the examination of Ireland under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Atheist Ireland, along with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland, made a Submission to the UN Committee in relation to religious discrimination in the education system ...
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It is now a decade since Atheist Ireland hosted two international conferences in Dublin. Both conferences agreed declarations on the principles that we should use to advance secularism. The first in 2011 was the World Atheist Convention. That conference agreed the Dublin Declaration on Secularism and the Place of Religion ...
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The Central Statistics Office is asking for submissions on improving the census questions for 2027. Atheist Ireland has made the following submission. If you agree with our arguments, please make a submission yourself supporting them. We recommend the following changes to the religion question: the question should be optional, should ...
