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9 May 2023

The 62 Types of Wedding Ceremonies in Ireland in 2022

Atheist Ireland has obtained figures from the CSO showing the 62 types of wedding ceremonies in Ireland in 2022. They range from Roman Catholic to the Rites of Passage of the Indigenous Wisdom Tradition of Celtic Druid Temple. Only about 44% were some variation of...

7 May 2023

Secular Sunday #593 – The rise in spiritual weddings 

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6 May 2023

One in five Irish marriages now spiritualist

One in five Irish weddings last year were spiritualist ceremonies, according to information obtained by Atheist Ireland last week. This is twice the number you would think from the published CSO statistics, which hide half of the spiritualist marriages under the label ‘other religious’. This...

30 April 2023

Secular Sunday #592 – Catholic weddings and secular laws

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29 April 2023

Catholic weddings return to steady decline

The number of Catholic weddings has recovered from its dramatic drop during Covid, and has returned to the pattern of steady decline that has been happening for the past decade. In the decade since 2012, the percentage of Catholic weddings has dropped from 65.2% to...

23 April 2023

Secular Sunday #591 – ChatGPT learns about atheism

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23 April 2023

ChatGPT learns about atheism

The Artificial Intelligence app ChatGPT wrote a nursery rhyme about God, but it would not write a nursery rhyme about atheism, because it said it cannot generate inappropriate or sensitive content. After a lengthy discussion about AI training data, freedom of religion or belief, discrimination,...

16 April 2023

Secular Sunday #590 – How Ireland privileges religious bodies

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15 April 2023

How Ireland privileges religious bodies over equality, diversity, and inclusion

In Ireland, organisations with religious privilege live in a bubble. They never have to change their ways, because they can get away with giving lip service to equality, diversity, and inclusion and get lauded for it. The right to freedom of conscience, religion and belief...

9 April 2023

Secular Sunday #589 – Schools ignore law on admission policies

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