Atheist Ireland has uncovered evidence of excess of €500,000 of public funds awarded in secret to the Catholic Church. Atheist Ireland has submitted Freedom of Information requests to a small sample of the Irish third level educational institutions, which deliver courses to adult citizens. These...
Atheist Ireland recommendations to OSCE on equality for atheists Atheist Ireland has made the following recommendations to the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) after taking part in the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, Poland, last week. A – Overall Recommendations for...
Atheist Ireland made two formal contributions to today’s OSCE human rights conference in Warsaw, highlighting religious discrimination against atheists and members of minority faiths in Ireland and throughout the OSCE. Jane Donnelly spoke on discrimination in the Irish education system, and Michael Nugent spoke on...
Atheist Ireland is in Poland this week, highlighting the religious discrimination against atheists and members of minority faiths throughout the OSCE, and particularly in Ireland. The event is the annual human rights conference organised by the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), which...
Atheist Ireland submits report to UN for next Universal Periodic Review. Atheist Ireland has submitted the following report for the next United Nations Universal Periodic Review of Ireland’s human rights record. We will also be attending the review, to lobby the Council members about religious...
The Association of Catholic Priests Supports Anti-Scientific Creationist Teaching in Catholic Schools. While the Roman Catholic Church is broadly supportive of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection, their formal doctrine continues to insist on “human exceptionalism”. That is, the Church requires that some dogmatic...
Are proposed reforms to end religious discrimination in Irish schools unconstitutional? This document should be read alongside the Schools Equality PACT, which asks the Irish Parliament to urgently pass a comprehensive Schools Equality Bill to reform the current State-funded religious discrimination. The PACT (Patronage, Access,...
Please sign and share the PACT petition at this link The Schools Equality PACT is a major new initiative of Atheist Ireland to enable everybody, regardless of your religious or nonreligious beliefs, to support religious equality in Irish schools. It is part of an ongoing...
The Minister for Education and the Department of Justice are blaming each other for the continued discrimination against atheists in State-funded schools. Atheist Ireland has recently met the Department of Justice about this, and will soon be meeting the Department of Education, following up on...
Special Needs Assistants must evangelise vulnerable children in State-funded Irish schools. It is not an occupational requirement of a Special Needs Assistant to teach religion, but they still must be prepared to evangelise vulnerable children into a religious way of life. This is a breach...
