The ETBI and Educate Together have just launched ‘Aitheantas’. This is a Framework for the Recognition of Certification to Teach Ethical, Multi-Belief and Values Education, in both ETB Community National schools and Educate Together schools. These Patrons’ curricula are the Goodness Me Goodness you course...
The Workplace Relations Commission has rejected a challenge by a former seminarian against a yoga studio. The studio banned him for life after he responded to a question about Christmas by saying it was hocus pocus that celebrated the rape and abandonment of a child....
Last April, the CSO published limited marriage figures by ceremony type for 2024. Atheist Ireland obtained the full breakdown from the CSO and published it last May. The CSO committed to including more detailed figures in future years, and we thanked them for that commitment....
In a recent Article in the Irish Times by Patsy McGarry, the Bishop of Meath, Tom Deenihan referred to “negative, ideologically driven and adversarial depiction of Catholic schools” as “grim places of indoctrination that children are forced to attend by Church and State”. But many...
Atheist Ireland appeared at 6:30 pm today before the Oireachtas Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen to discuss our Petition ‘To give practical application to the right not to attend religious instruction in school’. It is being live-streamed on the Oireachtas website. This is...
Atheist Ireland is appearing at 6:30 pm today before the Oireachtas Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen to discuss our Petition ‘To give practical application to the right not to attend religious instruction in school’. It will be live-streamed on the Oireachtas website at...
The United Nations is examining Ireland this year under the Universal Periodic Review. This is a unique UN Human Rights Council mechanism, established in 2006, that reviews the human rights records of all 193 UN Member States every four and a half years. Atheist Ireland...
The Department of Education survey that shows 40% of parents want multi-denominational schools is a distraction. Our human right to an objective education should not be subject to the preferences of our neighbours. Also, the survey was misleading, only giving parents an option to choose...
Atheist Ireland is continuing to engage with the ETBI regarding the human rights of families in ETB schools. The following is some of the content of our recent letter to the ETBI. We hope to continue to engage with the ETBI to ensure our human...
Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the National Conversation on Education, hosted by the Department of Education. Feel free to use the information here to prepare your own submission to the Conversation. You can make your own submission, at this link, by this...
