Recently, Atheist Ireland announced the successful outcome of our two-year campaign for reform of the State funded chaplaincy system at third level. No longer will colleges secretly award public funds to their local bishop for chaplaincy services, without advertisement, tender or interview. Instead, the HEA...
Atheist Ireland is among many women’s rights organisations and campaigners from Britain and internationally who have today submitted a letter to the United Kingdom Home Secretary raising serious concerns about the UK Government’s ‘independent review’ into Sharia courts in Britain. The letter states that the...
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...
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....
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...
Here are 20 great lessons taken from the recent Rationalist conference in Tallinn Estonia. This conference was held last weekend and Atheist Ireland’s chairperson was one of the speakers. [ess_grid alias=”even-gallery”]
...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...
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...
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...Last week Atheist Ireland told a meeting of United Nations state delegates in Geneva that Ireland’s Constitution is incompatible with our human rights obligations in freedom of religion, blasphemy laws, religious discrimination in schools and religious oaths for politicians and judges. Atheist Ireland attended and...