Atheist Ireland made two formal contributions to today’s OSCE human rights conference in Warsaw, highlighting religious discrimination against atheists and members of minority faiths in Ireland and throughout the OSCE. Jane Donnelly spoke on discrimination in the Irish education system, and Michael Nugent spoke on...
Atheist Ireland is in Poland this week, highlighting the religious discrimination against atheists and members of minority faiths throughout the OSCE, and particularly in Ireland. The event is the annual human rights conference organised by the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), which...
Atheist Ireland submits report to UN for next Universal Periodic Review. Atheist Ireland has submitted the following report for the next United Nations Universal Periodic Review of Ireland’s human rights record. We will also be attending the review, to lobby the Council members about religious...
Please sign and share the PACT petition at this link The Schools Equality PACT is a major new initiative of Atheist Ireland to enable everybody, regardless of your religious or nonreligious beliefs, to support religious equality in Irish schools. It is part of an ongoing...
The Minister for Education and the Department of Justice are blaming each other for the continued discrimination against atheists in State-funded schools. Atheist Ireland has recently met the Department of Justice about this, and will soon be meeting the Department of Education, following up on...
Thinking of getting into the teaching profession in Ireland? If so be prepared to be a missionary for the Catholic Church. The vast majority of publicly funded schools in Ireland are controlled by the Catholic Church, and if you want to get a job as...
The Irish Government is proposing a Bill to protect LGBT teachers, while allowing religious discrimination against teachers who are atheist and minority faiths. Atheist Ireland is campaigning to change this Bill so that it protects all teachers equally. This is a rare opportunity to...
Atheist Ireland has made a report to the Council of Europe about the Louise O’Keeffe judgement last year in the European Court of Human Rights. Atheist Ireland has made a report to the Council of Europe about the Louise O’Keeffe judgement last year in the...
Irish State claims EU sanctions discrimination against atheist teachers. After today’s Seanad debate, the Bill to protect teachers from religious discrimination in schools will still not protect atheist or religious minority teachers at all, including Protestant or Muslim teachers, who cannot access the teaching profession...
The Minster for Education and Skills, Jan O’Sullivan TD, has told the Dáil that in respect of hiring for publicly funded chaplain roles, Institutes of Technology in Ireland may be in a “sole supplier situation”. Dundalk Institute of Technology has decided that the only supplier...