This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial Hospitals and Schools, Church and State   Atheist Ireland made a submission this week to the Joint Oireachtas Health Committee about the National Maternity Hospital,...

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial Religious Hospitals, Religious Schools, and State Money   The proposed structure for owning and running the planned new maternity hospital is complicated. The Religious Sisters...

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial Secular Education, Women’s Rights, and Prayers   Atheist Ireland attended events this week organised by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment and the National...

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial The Primary School Curriculum and the Catholic Church   The NCCA is holding a Public Consultation on the new Draft Primary Curriculum Framework. Atheist Ireland...

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email   *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial Defences Forces Chaplains and the Burke case judgment   This week a Defence Forces Commission recommended updating their Chaplaincy service to better reflect wider...

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial The making of ‘Debutante’ and the power of film   ‘Debutante’, a short Irish film about religious control and coming-of-age, has had a wonderful reaction...

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial Catholic Schools Week is evangelising, not inclusive   This coming week is Catholic Schools Week, during which publicly funded schools run by Catholic Bishops will...

This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email   *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|*   Editorial The influence of religious ethos in schools   In Ireland it is legally possible for schools to influence your child into a religious way...