This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Have a Happy Secular Easter Atheist Ireland wishes everyone a happy secular Easter. For thousands of years, people have celebrated the coming of Spring...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Stop Saying ‘Opt Out’ of Religious Instruction Many people informally refer to the right to ‘opt out’ of religious instruction in Irish schools. But...
The Irish Constitution was heavily influenced by the Catholic Church. There are Articles in the Irish Constitution that favour religion and protect the interests of religious institutions. There are Constitutional reasons why governments should not fund religious institutions to deliver public services. Publicly funded hospitals...
This Sunday, 3 April, you will fill in your census form for 2022. The results will be used in planning the allocation of public services and resources, including the Catholic Church controlling almost all of our State-funded primary schools. To keep the census figures accurate,...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial One week to Census 2022 Next Sunday, people around Ireland will fill in their census forms for 2022. We ask everyone to pay attention...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Hospitals and Schools, Church and State Atheist Ireland made a submission this week to the Joint Oireachtas Health Committee about the National Maternity Hospital,...
The next Irish Census is on Sunday 3rd April 2022. This was postponed from April 2021 due to Covid. Atheist Ireland launched the ‘Be Honest to Godless’ campaign in the run up to the 2011 census. We asked people give serious consideration to how they...
Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the Joint Oireachtas Health Committee on Constitutional issues regarding the National Maternity Hospital and the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Code of Ethical Standards for Healthcare. Contents 1. Introduction to Atheist Ireland 2. Article 44.2.5 of the Constitution and...
This week’s Secular Sunday. To avoid missing out, sign up here to receive Secular Sunday by email *|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* Editorial Religious Hospitals, Religious Schools, and State Money The proposed structure for owning and running the planned new maternity hospital is complicated. The Religious Sisters...