Atheist Ireland has written to the Taoiseach requesting to meet him and ministers and officials, under the structured process of dialogue between the Government and churches, faith bodies and non-confessional bodies. Atheist Ireland is a partner in this dialogue process, having been accepted as such...
Michael Nugent will be speaking this morning at the parliamentary hearings on abortion law, along with representatives of five Irish churches. The session runs from 9.30 am to 11.30 am. There will be five-minute opening statements, followed by an hour and a half of questions...
Update: Atheist Ireland has been invited to take part in this hearing. We would like to thank the Oireachtas Health Committee for its prompt and courteous response to our request. Atheist Ireland has asked to be invited to parliamentary hearings this week on abortion law....
Atheist Ireland today sent this letter to the President of Ireland: Dear President, Yesterday the Dail passed the Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill. We are asking you as President to ask your Council of State for advice on whether to send this Bill to the Supreme...
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has been responding to concerns about unconscious bias in its anti-discrimination law project, by repeatedly telling members of the public that the ICCL has sent a detailed 5-page letter to Atheist Ireland about the issue. Here is the ICCL...
Atheist Ireland today wrote to TDs asking them to amend the Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill, which will be debated in the Dail this Thursday, 20 December 2012. See an earlier article on this Bill here. We also copied this letter to the Irish Human Rights...
Irish civil society groups are asking the Government to include twelve nominees on the expert panel for the coming Constitutional Convention. The nominees include Atheist Ireland chairperson Michael Nugent and Oxford Brookes University professor David Nash on the topic of blasphemy; and Michael Nugent on...
In April, Atheist Ireland wrote to the Minister for Education about Document No. 154 of material released to RTE under the Freedom of Information Act. This document outlined how parents in a VEC community school were told that: “It is true that all morality is...
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.
...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...