Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland

2 September 2016

Atheist Ireland Statement to the UN Human Rights Council

Atheist Ireland has given a written statement to the United Nations Human Rights Council as part of the final session of the Universal Periodic Review of Ireland. The Thirty Third session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) will take place from 13th – 30th of...

15 June 2016

Changes in Atheist Ireland online practices

From 15 June 2016, Atheist Ireland is moving our Facebook discussions from our existing Atheist Ireland Connect group, which we are closing, to a private Facebook group which will be open only to members of Atheist Ireland. We will continue to post articles on our...

9 June 2016

Diversity and Choice = Religious Discrimination and Segregation

Atheist Ireland yesterday made this Submission to the Consultation process, started by the new Minister for Education Richard Bruton, on his Statement of Strategy 2016- 2018. Introduction Atheist Ireland is an Irish advocacy group. We promote atheism and reason over superstition and supernaturalism, and we...

28 May 2016

Atheist Ireland at International Hate Studies Conference in Limerick

Atheist Ireland was represented this week at the International Network on Hate Studies conference in the University of Limerick. It was one of the most engaging and informative conferences that we have attended. We learned a lot about prejudice and hate motivated behaviour, which we...

28 May 2016

Maryam Namazie moves blog and launches new website

Maryam Namazie is one of the most important and courageous human rights campaigners that Atheist Ireland has the privilege to know and work with. She has launched a new website at MaryamNamazie.com which will cover all of her work, videos, press coverage, photos and more....

15 May 2016

Atheist Ireland response to Programme for Government and UN examination of Ireland

This week saw two significant developments that will affect Atheist Ireland’s work in the coming years: the new Programme for Government, and the UN questioning of Ireland’s human rights record under the Universal Periodic Review process. Atheist Ireland will continue to promote an ethical, secular...

21 April 2016

Dublin Anarchist Bookfair breaks agreement with Atheist Ireland

In a parallel to the ongoing pattern of regressive groups ‘disinviting’ and ‘no-platforming’ speakers with whom they disagree, the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair has unilaterally broken an agreement with Atheist Ireland that we would host an information stall at their event last weekend. They thus prevented...

15 April 2016

The tangled web of financial rules for political campaign groups

Atheist Ireland complies with the various pieces of legislation that regulate the funding and payment for political campaigning in Ireland. Unlike some other groups with secular or religious political aims, we are all volunteers, but we have managed to ensure that our funding and donations...

8 April 2016

If you are not religious, tick ‘No Religion’ in the census

Please share this with anyone who lives in Ireland. Thank you.

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8 April 2016

Background information for UN human rights review of Ireland

This page describes human rights breaches in Ireland that Sir Nigel Rodley has described as being connected to: “The institutional belief system that has predominated in the State Party, and which occasionally has sought to dominate the State Party” The page is a resource for...