Secular Sunday

Secular Sunday

24 October 2021

Secular Sunday #513 – The positive right to hold atheist beliefs

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email   Editorial The positive right to hold atheist beliefs   Atheist Ireland made a submission this week to the Department of Justice’s review of the Equality Acts. We...

17 October 2021

Secular Sunday #512 – The right to protection from discrimination as an atheist

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial The right to protection from discrimination as an atheist   Atheist Ireland has sent a submission to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission’s consultation...

10 October 2021

Secular Sunday #511 – Parents’ rights and attending religious education

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email   Editorial Parents’ rights and attending religious education   Atheist Ireland wrote this week to the Department of Education asking them to remove a Circular Letter from 2018...

3 October 2021

Secular Sunday #510 – Help to free Iranian blogger Soheil Arabi

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial Help to free Iranian blogger Soheil Arabi   Over 200 secular activists and groups have called for today, Sunday 3 October, to be recognised as...

26 September 2021

Secular Sunday #509 – Misuse of public funds for in-service teacher training

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial Misuse of public funds for in-service teacher training   Atheist Ireland wrote a few weeks ago to the Minister for Education, the Oireachtas Education Committee,...

19 September 2021

Secular Sunday #508 – International funding of political campaigns

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial International funding of political campaigns   Millions of euros in international funding, including from America and Russia, are spent within European countries to campaign politically...

12 September 2021

Secular Sunday #507 – Zappone scandal and political purposes

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial Zappone scandal and political purposes   The Katherine Zappone scandal underlines why it would be bad for democracy to weaken the SIPO laws that regulate...

5 September 2021

Secular Sunday #506 – Another €9.8 million for ETB chaplains

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email   Editorial Another €9.8 million for ETB chaplains   The Department of Education spends €9.8 million per year on 156 Chaplains in ETB schools, which are supposed to...

29 August 2021

Secular Sunday #505 – Another school year starts

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial Another school year starts   Another school year is starting, and schools will as usual find various ways to try to prevent students from not...

22 August 2021

Secular Sunday #504 – Atheist Ireland meets Lord Mayor of Dublin

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial Atheist Ireland meets Lord Mayor of Dublin   Atheist Ireland this week became the first atheist group to meet with the Lord Mayor of Dublin,...