Sinead Redmond talks to Dublin Atheists in the Pub about how she set up the Facebook group ‘Unlike Youth Defence, I trust women to decide their lives for themselves’ and how she organized a protest at Leinster House against misleading advertisements about the impact of...
Atheist Ireland has joined more than twenty rights-based groups in supporting an open letter, coordinated by Amnesty International Ireland, asking the Government to include all fundamental human rights on the agenda of the proposed Constitutional Convention.
...Jesus the Remake writer David Horgan talks to Dublin Atheists in the Pub last Thursday. Jen McCreight’s talk on atheism and feminism, from the same event, to follow soon. Dublin Atheists in the Pub is organized by Atheist Ireland, and takes place on the second...
Atheist Ireland has written today to the Taoiseach and Tanaiste, asking them to include secularism and human rights on the agenda of the proposed constitutional convention. We have also asked them to seek wider public consultation about the format and agenda of the convention. Here...
The Atheist Ireland Dublin Atheists in the Pub evening next Thursday, June 21, will have two excellent speakers, traveling from Cork and America: David Horgan, writer of http://www.jesustheremake.com, who will talk about the Jesus character in movies, and Jennifer McCreight from the Secular Student Alliance...
On Wednesday 6 June, Michael Nugent was on a panel discussion about religion and science on the Marc Coleman show on Newstalk Radio. The other panelists were Michael Kelly deputy editor of the Irish Catholic newspaper, Donal O’Sullivan Latchford of the Irish family and Media...
Atheist Ireland condemns the jail sentence imposed today on Indonesian civil servant Alexander Aan for sharing material on Facebook about the Prophet Mohammad. The law should protect people from harm, and not protect ideas from criticism. We ask all Irish people to contact the Indonesian...
This is Michael Nugent’s talk about blasphemy laws at the 2012 European Atheist Conference in Cologne in Germany.
...On 3rd May, Atheist Ireland attended a consultation at the Department of Foreign Affairs on the Draft Irish State Report to the United Nations under the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights. We have also made a written submission that Government departments will consider...
Here’s Geoff Lillis at last night’s Dublin Atheists in the Pub event, talking about his adventures discussing theology with street speakers. Geoff writes a blog at http://geoffsshorts.blogspot.com/. Dublin Atheists in the Pub is organized by Atheist Ireland, and takes place on the second Thursday of...