Atheist Alliance International has agreed, by an 80% vote margin, to expand into two separate organisations. One will conduct atheist advocacy at a national level within the USA, and one will conduct atheist advocacy at an international level while supporting national groups throughout the world....
Conor McGrath of Atheist Ireland has been elected as Vice President of Atheist Alliance International. The four new officers elected today are: President: Nick Lee – Freethinkers Association of Central Texas (Texas, USA). Nick is the co-founder and Vice President of Texas Freethought Convention, now...
Derek Walsh reviews the launch of the anti-evolution book that Ireland’s Minister for Science had planned to formally launch. I arrived a little late at the book launch of The Origin of Specious Nonsense to find the author John J. May, already in full swing,...
The Pope makes two scandalous comments in his opening speech in Britain: firstly, his attempt to blame atheism for the crimes of Nazi Germany, and secondly his inference that, if you do not want God or religion in public life, you also do not want...
Update: Irish Science Minister Lenihan withdraws from launching anti-evolution book http://bit.ly/atOXec Conor Lenihan, Ireland’s Minister of State for Science, is to launch a book this Wednesday that describes evolution as a scientific hoax. He says he is doing this because the author is a friend...
This month with half the votes a clear winner shot ahead in the polls. Little interest was shown for the NHS wasting money on hiring Buddisht monks to give staff “Happiness Courses”. They may even now be scheduling additional courses to cope with not winning...
If you have a personal interest in any of the policy issues which concern Atheist Ireland, and you can spare 30 minutes occasionally, then you’ve already got the most basic qualities needed to help make a difference – commitment and time. Much of the advice...
This week 60 years ago, on the request of the Roman Catholic Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, Radio Eireann started to broadcast the Angelus. This daily call to prayer, still gifted by RTE to the Roman Catholic Church as a free prime time advertisement, has no...
How do activist Atheist groups differ from Humanist groups? And how can we best work together to promote a rational, ethical and secular society? Arguably, the labels are relatively unimportant in themselves. Most atheists and most humanists share most of the same fundamental beliefs and...
Apologists for the Vatican have recently claimed that the Catholic Church does not compare sexually abusing a child with attempting to ordain a woman, but that it merely included both crimes in the same document as a procedural matter. However, this is not true. A...