The Vice Chair of the INTO, Joe McKeown, said yesterday that the INTO would take steps to make sure that teachers are not disciplined or punished for a failure to use the Catholic sex education programme Flourish in schools. And Tanaiste Leo Varadkar said today...
Atheist Ireland has been working for several years on the issue of objective versus Catholic sex education in Irish schools. If you want to understand more about the issue, you can read our submissions and articles linked below. The Department of Education supports the integration...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Teaching children to “procreate with God” The Catholic Bishops have introduced a new course in what is effectively catholic sex and morality education, to be...
As the NCCA is updating the syllabus for Social, Personal, and Health Education (SPHE), the Catholic Bishops are circling the croziers by introducing a new course called ‘Flourish’ in publicly funded national schools. Flourish is officially Relationship and Sex Education, and in practice is Catholic...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Military chaplains are responsible to Catholic Bishops Chaplains in the Irish Defence Forces are responsible to the Bishop of their Dioceses for the moral...
Last month Atheist Ireland, the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland, and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland, made a joint submission to the Public Consultation Commission on the Defence Forces. You can read that here. We argued that Roman Catholicism is part of the culture of...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email Editorial Minister must respect parents rights after Burke case Atheist Ireland is writing this week to the Minister for Education and all of the political party...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email Editorial NCCA to consider new Court judgment The NCCA is currently reviewing the draft Primary Curriculum framework, and Atheist Ireland made a submission to its consultation...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email Editorial Submission to the UN under the Universal Periodic Review This week Atheist Ireland along with the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland and the Ahmadiyya Muslim community...
Ireland will be questioned this year by the United Nations Human Rights Council under a process called the Universal Periodic Review. Atheist Ireland, the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland, and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland, have made this joint submission to UN on freedom of...