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31/03/2019 No Comments Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #379 – Jane Donnelly named Atheist and Feminist of the Year

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31/03/2019 No Comments Atheist Ireland

Jane Donnelly, Armin Navabi, and Freedom From Religion Foundation given Atheist of the Year Awards

Jane Donnelly of Atheist Ireland was given the Atheist and Feminist of the Year award at the 2019 International Days of Atheism conference in Warsaw, Poland, this weekend. Armin Navabi, founder of Atheist Republic, was named individual Atheist of the Year, and the Freedom From Religion Foundation in USA got ...

29/03/2019 No Comments Atheist Ireland

Speech in Poland – Review of the Campaign Against the Irish Blasphemy Law

Michael Nugent gave this speech today, Friday 29 March 2019, at the Days of Atheism Conference in Warsaw, Poland. When Atheist Ireland was founded ten years ago, our first task was simply to normalise the use of the words atheism and secularism in public debate. We have come a long ...

28/03/2019 No Comments Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland calls for stronger regulation of funding of political campaigns

Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the Public Consultation Process on the Establishment of a New Electoral Commission. Once it has been considered, the submission will be published on the website of the Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government. Recommendations The SIPO law needs to be strengthened ...

24/03/2019 No Comments Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #378 – The right to opt out of religion class

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17/03/2019 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #377 – State Funded School Evangelism

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15/03/2019 Atheist Ireland

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”. ...

10/03/2019 Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday #376 – How State Schools Break The Rules

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10/03/2019 Atheist Ireland

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 ...

03/03/2019 Secular Sunday

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

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