This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Debutante film to have online premiere Debutante, a short film about religious control and coming-of-age in a hostile environment, will have its online premiere...
Debutante, a short film about religious control and coming-of-age in a hostile environment, will have its online premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh on 24th July. Atheist Ireland are official partners of the film by Kamila Dydyna, a Polish filmmaker based in Dublin. In Debutante,...
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland has released its report about the RTE comedy sketch on New Year’s Eve, in which the police arrest the Christian god for sexual harassment against Mary, and the courts find him guilty but release him. The BAI Committee found that...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email Editorial The right to freedom of conscience Article 44.1 of the Irish Constitution protects the right to freedom of conscience. The Irish State has failed to...
Our politicians are now wrestling with the issues around the National Maternity Hospital and the Sisters of Charity. Those issues are not just about access to reproductive healthcare, but also about the right to freedom of conscience. Those who seek a National Maternity Hospital free...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email Editorial Hospitals, Schools, and Assisted Dying It is scandalous that the Government is even contemplating ceding control over the new national maternity hospital to a private...
In a democratic republic, the State should own and directly run the national maternity hospital. It should not cede control over this essential public service to any private body, never mind to a charity associated with the Catholic church, which has an appalling record of...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email Editorial Religion teachers undermine students’ rights This week religion teachers complained about Catholic students being bullied because they are different. They are correct to raise this...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial The right to freedom of thought This week Atheist Ireland made a submission about freedom of thought to Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations Special...
The Minister for Education, Norma Foley and the Department of Education are trying to control the language around Relationship and Sexuality Education in order to hide the influence that a catholic ethos has on the teaching of the subject. The Minister and the Department use...