Atheist Ireland today sent this letter to the President of Ireland: Dear President, Yesterday the Dail passed the Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill. We are asking you as President to ask your Council of State for advice on whether to send this Bill to the Supreme...
The Dail today passed the Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill, despite several TDs highlighting concerns raised by Atheist Ireland in our briefing document ‘Legislating for Equality In Marriage Registration.’ Atheist Ireland is now writing to the President asking him to send the Bill to the Supreme...
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has been responding to concerns about unconscious bias in its anti-discrimination law project, by repeatedly telling members of the public that the ICCL has sent a detailed 5-page letter to Atheist Ireland about the issue. Here is the ICCL...
Atheist Ireland today wrote to TDs asking them to amend the Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill, which will be debated in the Dail this Thursday, 20 December 2012. See an earlier article on this Bill here. We also copied this letter to the Irish Human Rights...
It’s time for this week’s Secular Sunday! In this issue: News Upcoming Events B News The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) is running an Anti-Discrimination Law Review Project with an Advisory Group made up of representatives of various minority groups. In October, Atheist Ireland...
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has repeatedly publicly alleged this week that Atheist Ireland has made a number of material inaccuracies in our letters to them about unconscious bias against atheists in their Anti-Discrimination Law project. Today the ICCL publicly posted on its Facebook...
Atheist Ireland has today emailed the following letter to the Irish Council for Civil liberties, and to the members of the Advisory Group and Research Team of the ICCL’s Anti-Discrimination Law Review Project. On 23 October Atheist Ireland discovered that the ICCL is running an...
Welcome to this week’s Secular Sunday. In this issue: News Upcoming Events ‘Tis the Season Bloggage
... Welcome to this week’s Secular Sunday. In this issue: News Upcoming Events ‘Tis the Season Bloggage
... The Irish Senate yesterday passed a Bill enabling secular bodies to nominate people who can legally solemnize marriages. Currently only the State or a religious body can do this. The Humanist Association of Ireland has for years nominated people who can conduct marriage ceremonies, but...