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11 June 2023

Secular Sunday #598 – Meeting with Minister for Equality

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9 June 2023

Atheist Ireland, Evangelicals, and Ahmadis meet Minister for Children and Equality Roderic O’Gorman

Atheist Ireland, along with our colleagues from the Evangelical Alliance and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, met Minister for Children and Equality Roderic O’Gorman this week. It was a very constructive meeting at which we discussed: The concept of freedom of religion or belief in human...

4 June 2023

Secular Sunday #597 – No longer a Catholic country

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30 May 2023

One in five Irish people either told census they have no religion (14%) or declined to answer (7%)

Over a million (or one in every five) Irish people either said they have no religion (14%) or declined to state a religion (7%) in last year’s census. In reality, the evidence of day to day life, including Church attendances, indicates that far more than...

28 May 2023

Secular Sunday #596 – Celebrating marriage and reflecting on dying

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27 May 2023

Two levels of religious discrimination in solemnising marriages

Atheist Ireland has asked to meet Heather Humphreys, Minister for Social Protection, to discuss the religious discrimination in the Civil Registration Act that governs who can legally solemnise marriages. Here is the letter we sent to her this week. Dear Minister Humphreys, We would like...

21 May 2023

Secular Sunday #595 – Defence Force Chaplains and Religious Education

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16 May 2023

Atheist Ireland meets with Defence Forces Chaplaincy Review Board

Atheist Ireland met this week with Lt Col Padraig Brennan, chair of the Irish Defence Forces Review of the Chaplaincy service. Here are our thoughts and recommendations that we expressed at the meeting. The Defence Forces website states that “The Defence Forces are committed to...

14 May 2023

Secular Sunday #594 – Marriage laws still discriminate against atheists

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11 May 2023

Marriage laws still discriminate for religions over humanists, and for humanists over atheists

In the marriage figures issued by the CSO the Humanist Association of Ireland solemnised 9.3% of all marriages in 2022. Since the introduction of the Civil Registration Amendment Act in 2012, the Humanist Association have been permitted to legally solemnise marriages. That has come at...

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