Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland

20 December 2021

Atheist Ireland report to Public Accounts Committee and C&AG

Atheist Ireland sent this report to the Public Accounts Committee and the Comptroller and Auditor General in December 2021 on the Misuse of Public Funds by the Department of Education and the NCCA. [pdf-embedder url="https://atheistireland.demoworkspace.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AI-Public-Accounts-Submission-Dec-21.pdf" title="AI Public Accounts Submission Dec 21"]

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28 November 2021

Another busy year for Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland has had another busy year, culminating in our Annual General Meeting yesterday which was held online. Here is a summary of some of our activities over the past twelve months. As well as the national activities below, we support atheist and secular groups...

21 November 2021

Email from Department of Education to Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland has received the following email from the Department of Education, in response to our submission to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education.. Atheist Ireland via email michael@michaelnugent.com 26th November 2021 Dear Ms. Donnelly and Mr. Nugent I refer to your letter of the...

18 November 2021

The political campaign continues to remove the religious oaths in the Irish constitution

The religious oaths in the Irish Constitution for President and members of the Council of State still contravene human rights law, and today’s ruling by the European Court of Human Rights has not found otherwise. Indeed, the European Court has previously found in the cases...

7 November 2021

Support the campaign for the State to own and manage the new National Maternity Hospital

Atheist Ireland joined a meeting this week of women’s rights groups and secular groups that want the State to own and manage the new National Maternity Hospital. The meeting was convened by Jo Tully, chairperson of the Campaign Against Church Ownership of Women’s Healthcare. This...

2 November 2021

Atheist Ireland asks NCCA to address impact of school ethos on teaching of sex education

Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the NCCA about the redevelopment of Junior Cycle Social, Personal, and Health Education (SPHE). We are making this submission in the context of our submission from October 2019 on the Review of Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE)...

31 October 2021

Atheist Ireland asks Department to protect rights of children from secular families in schools

The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration, and Youth is preparing Ireland’s 5th/6th State Report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the consultation on the draft State Report. We are making this submission...

19 October 2021

Atheist Ireland asks Government to amend the Equality Acts to protect nonreligious beliefs

Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the Department of Justice’s consultation on the review of the Equality Acts. You can make a submission yourself, before 29th November, after reading the details on the Department’s website. Please feel free to include points that we...

14 October 2021

Atheist Ireland asks IHREC to protect the positive right to nonreligious philosophical beliefs

Atheist Ireland sent this submission to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission’s consultation for their Strategy Statement 2022-24. We have also taken part in a follow-up meeting about our submission. We are asking the Commission to protect the positive right to nonreligious philosophical beliefs,...

11 October 2021

The Frontline Workers Public Holiday should not be linked with religion

Atheist Ireland has sent the following letter to the Taoiseach and members of the Cabinet. The purpose of the new public holiday is to mark the efforts of frontline workers during the Covid pandemic. The most obvious way to do that is to call it...