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10 March 2013

Secular Sunday #63 – It's Perfunctory

This week’s edition might be a little short on content because your editor was away from home yesterday, and today spent several hours lunching with other atheists. Nonetheless we have some news, upcoming events and of course a roundup of the most interesting of the...

3 March 2013

Secular Sunday #62 – Non Habemus Papam

It’s Sunday again, and our big news this week is that conference tickets are now on general sale. We’ve also got a roundup of news stories concerning religion, science and human rights, compiled by Barbara Monea; details of upcoming events including brunches next week; some...

24 February 2013

Secular Sunday #61 – News Addition

Welcome to this week’s Secular Sunday. We have some real changes this week. Most significantly we have a new contributor. Barbara Monea is a 30-year-old Italian who has recently joined Atheist Ireland. She is a long-time member of UAAR (Union of Atheists and Agnostics in...

15 February 2013

Atheist Ireland to host international conference on Empowering Women Through Secularism

Religions and religiously-inspired laws discriminate against women. Secular activism can help to empower women. And, whether you are a woman or a man, you can help to shape the future of secular activism and women’s rights around the world by coming to Dublin this June....

10 February 2013

Secular Sunday #59 – Food For Thought

It’s time for this week’s Secular Sunday. In this issue: News Upcoming Events Blogologue

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10 February 2013

Flirting with the light of reason: how a la carte Catholicism contributes to the secular agenda, by Andrew D Rattigan

In the first of a series of articles for Atheist Ireland, Andrew Devine-Rattigan remembers the set-menu Irish Catholics of recent decades, argues that they are being replaced by a new generation of a la carte Irish Catholics, and says that atheists and secularists should welcome...

9 February 2013

Atheist Ireland to meet with Irish Government this year

Atheist Ireland will be meeting with the Irish Government this year for a bilateral meeting under the process of structured dialogue between the State and churches, faith communities and philosophical and other non-confessional bodies. We first requested this meeting last year, and we requested it...

9 February 2013

Second Sunday, Secular Sunday, Second Breakfasts tomorrow

Don’t forget: Tomorrow, we have three simultaneous events in Dublin Cork Sligo It’s nothing formal, just getting together for a meal and a chat at midday on the second Sunday of every month. If you are organising one of tomorrow’s events, here is a table...

3 February 2013

Secular Sunday #58 – Let's Do Brunch

It’s time for this week’s Secular Sunday. In this issue: News Upcoming Events Blogality

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3 February 2013

Secular Sunday #58 – Let’s Do Brunch

It’s time for this week’s Secular Sunday. In this issue: News Upcoming Events Blogality

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