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21 February 2021

Secular Sunday #478 – Statutory Guidelines on Religion in Schools

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email   Editorial Statutory Guidelines on Religion in Schools   The State needs to rebalance Constitutional rights regarding religion in schools in order to guarantee the Constitutional and Human...

14 February 2021

Secular Sunday #477 – Timeline of Religious Discrimination in Schools

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial Timeline of Religious Discrimination in Schools   Over the past fifty years, the Irish education system has evolved to include religious discrimination that was not intended...

14 February 2021

How unintended religious discrimination in Irish schools has evolved since 1965

Over the past fifty years, the Irish education system has evolved to include religious discrimination that was not intended to be there. The influence of the Catholic Church has undermined attempts by politicians to respect and balance the Constitutional rights of all families. Please lobby...

8 February 2021

Protecting democracy from the undue influence of money between elections

The Oireachtas Joint Committee on Local Government is discussing the Electoral Reform Bill 2020. Atheist Ireland has written to the Committee, asking them to protect our democracy from the undue influence of money between elections. Dear Committee Member, We note that your Committee met on...

7 February 2021

Secular Sunday #476 – Protecting democracy from big money

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email   *|MC:SUBJECT|* || *|DATE:j F, Y|* View in browser | Update preferences | Unsubscribe | Forward | Contact us Editorial Protecting democracy from big money   This week...

2 February 2021

Dying with Dignity Bill – Atheist Ireland submission to Justice Committee

The Oireachtas Justice Committee is scrutinising the Dying with Dignity Bill 2020. This is a submission from Atheist Ireland responding to questions raised by the Committee. Define the problem/the policy issue which the Bill is designed to address; to what extent is it an issue...

31 January 2021

Secular Sunday #475 – ETB Chaplains and Dying with Dignity

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email     *|MC:SUBJECT|* || *|DATE:j F, Y|* View in browser | Update preferences | Unsubscribe | Forward | Contact us Editorial How the Catholic Church has harmed Ireland...

30 January 2021

RTE’s ‘blasphemous’ comedy sketch – opinions of an atheist and a Catholic priest

This article is written by Peter Hinchliffe, who runs the Atheist Ireland Kerry Group. A few weeks ago a local paper asked if I could submit responses to questions raised by the issue of RTEs sketch showing the Abrahamic god being arrested for the rape...

26 January 2021

Religious discrimination in the hiring of Chaplains in ETB schools

Atheist Ireland, the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland, and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland have jointly written to the Minister for Education about religious discrimination in the hiring of Chaplains in ETB schools. The WRC found in a recent case that a Designated ETB Community...

24 January 2021

Secular Sunday #474 – How the Catholic Church has harmed Ireland

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by emai   Editorial How the Catholic Church has harmed Ireland   The Mother and Baby Homes report is the latest reminder of how the Catholic Church evangelised Irish culture,...

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