Two years ago, in October 2020, we published a report on how 100 sample schools were defying the legal requirement to publish an Admission Policy which must include details of the school’s arrangements for students who do not want to attend religious instruction. We brought...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Misuse of public funds in schools Atheist Ireland wrote again this week to the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee and the Comptroller and Auditor...
Since last December, Atheist Ireland has been lobbying to vindicate the constitutional right to not attend religious instruction in schools, and to uphold parental authority in the education of their children, which the Supreme Court has described as a foundational pillar of the Constitution. You...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial School ethos and SPHE Atheist Ireland has made a submission to the NCCA’s consultation on the updated junior cycle SPHE curriculum. We argue that the...
Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the NCCA’s consultation on the updated junior cycle SPHE curriculum. The aim of the updated short course is ‘to nurture students’ self-awareness and positive self-worth and to develop the knowledge, understanding, skills, dispositions and values that will...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Atheist Ireland at the United Nations Following our recent visit to the UN at Geneva, where we promoted the rights of children to...
Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights who is preparing report on combating intolerance against persons based on religion or belief. Contents 1. Background to Atheist Ireland 2. Our recommendations 3. The UN and States should use...
This week’s Secular Sunday can be found here. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial The United Nations and the rights of the child Atheist Ireland was at the United Nations in Geneva this week...
Atheist Ireland, the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland, and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland, made a joint submission to the UN Children’s Rights Committee as it prepares to question Ireland next January. You can read that submission here. We also met with the UN Committee...
Atheist Ireland was at the United Nations in Geneva this week lobbying for the rights of children in Irish schools that discriminate on the ground of religion. We also represented the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland, with whom we...