We were shocked to read a report in the Irish Times this morning that the Department of Education may be considering a new Circular Letter to ETB schools that would force students to attend the State course in Religious Education against their conscience, contrary to...
Public Meeting on Vote Yes to Remove Blasphemy Law Galway When: 16th of October at 8pm Where Harbour Hotel Galway Public Meeting in Galway on Vote Yes to Remove the Blasphemy Law. Details of speakers to follow. The Irish Constitution, written in 1937, makes blasphemy...
Public Meeting on Vote Yes to Remove the Blasphemy Law When 13th of October at 3pm Where Buswells Hotel 23-27 Molesworth St Dublin Public Meeting including guest speakers David Nash, Blasphemy laws historian Michael Nugent, Atheist Ireland More speakers too follow. #BlasphemyRef The Irish Constitution,...
Launch of Campaign to Remove the Blasphemy Law When: Sunday the 30th of September – World Blasphemy Day at 2pm Where: The Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin Why: At 2pm this Sunday, 30th September, World Blasphemy Day, Atheist Ireland will officially launch a Campaign...
Jane Donnelly, Human Rights Officer of Atheist Ireland, made the following speech today at the Be The Change conference in Waterford, organised by Waterford People Before Profit, on Saturday 22 September 2018. Ireland is becoming more secular, because the developed world is becoming more secular....
Atheist Ireland welcomes today’s unopposed vote in the Oireachtas to hold a referendum on 26th October to remove the offence of blasphemy from the Irish Constitution. We have been campaigning for a decade to get this referendum called, and we will campaign for the next...
Solidarity today supported the Bill to hold a referendum to remove the offence of blasphemy from the Irish Constitution, and will be campaigning for a Yes vote in the referendum. Solidarity has formally proposed a removal of the blasphemy provision in their own Bill that...
Repeal the Blasphemy Law Public Meeting When September 15th 2018 Where Buswell’s Hotel 23-27 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2, D02 DT80 Why The Irish Constitution, written in 1937, makes blasphemy an offence punishable by law. there will be a referendum on 26 October (along with the...
While Pope Francis was speaking in Croke Park in Dublin, Jane Donnelly of Atheist Ireland was making the case for a secular education system free from Catholic Church influence. Jane was speaking at a public meeting convened by People Before Profit, about Separation of Church...
Six years ago, Atheist Ireland joined LGBT Noise in a small protest outside the Catholic Church’s Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, against the ongoing efforts by the Vatican to oppose equal civil rights for LGBT people. A lot has changed since then. This week Atheist Ireland...