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16/03/2018 No Comments Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland supports Solidarity’s Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill

Atheist Ireland supports the Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018 that Solidarity has introduced. If passed in the Oireachtas, it would mean that all students in Ireland could for the first time have access to objective Sex Education. This is a policy that Atheist Ireland has been actively promoting. ...

13/03/2018 No Comments Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland asks SIPOC about funding of Catholic Bishops’ referendum campaign

Atheist Ireland has asked the SIPO Commission to examine the funding of the Catholic Bishops' referendum campaign in support of retaining the eighth amendment. Atheist Ireland is a voluntary advocacy group, registered with SIPO as a Third Party. Because of our support for SIPO and its regulations, we have declined ...

11/03/2018 No Comments Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #324 – Atheist Ireland at Polish Days of Atheism

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05/03/2018 7 Comments Atheist Ireland

Catholic Church at UN rejects human right to freedom from religion

Last Friday, 2nd March, at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, the Holy See opposed the fundamental human right to freedom from religion, claiming that it is a patronising idea that goes beyond the mandate of UN’s special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. The Holy See ...

04/03/2018 No Comments Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #323 – Questions about the new directive on religion in ETB schools

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25/02/2018 No Comments Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #322 – A cultural shift

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23/02/2018 No Comments Atheist Ireland

How the State Religious Education Course breaches Human and Constitutional Rights

This week the Minister for Education, Richard Bruton issued a new Directive to ETB schools and colleges on religion. This new Directive has been a long time coming. Atheist Ireland has been working on this for years as the majority of the complaints we get are from parents and students about ...

19/02/2018 18 Comments Atheist Ireland

New directive on religious instruction will change the culture of ETB schools

Atheist Ireland welcomes the Department of Education’s new directive on religious instruction in second-level ETB schools. It is the most significant recognition of the constitutional and human rights of atheist, minority faith, and secular families in Irish schools since Atheist Ireland was founded. These rights have always existed, and now ...

18/02/2018 No Comments Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #321 – Changing the culture in State-run ETB schools

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14/02/2018 No Comments Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland welcomes proposed opt-out from religious instruction in ETB schools

Finally, in ETB schools, a proper opt-out from religion seems about to happen, with alternative subjects being offered at the start of the year, based on proposals that Atheist Ireland has been intensively lobbying for in recent years. The Irish Times has seen records of a coming Ministerial Circular that ...

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