Hello and welcome to the second issue of Secular Sunday, the weekly newsletter of Atheist Ireland. We’ve had a lot of positive feedback about our first issue. Thanks to all those who provided encouragement, suggestions and offers of help. In this issue: Atheist Ireland News...
On Sunday 5 June 2011, the World Atheist Convention in Dublin discussed and adopted the following declaration on secularism and the place of religion in public life. Please discuss and promote it with your friends and colleagues, and if you are a a member of...
Greetings, Fellow Atheists: Happy New Year, and welcome to Secular Sunday, the new weekly newsletter of Atheist Ireland. It will include details of events, activities, news items and other relevant topics. This first issue is devoted to a review of our main activities during 2011...
This month we learn from a study conducted in University of B.C. that the only group Religious people trust as little as rapists is…. you guessed it…. Atheists. The study showed that such people think Atheists good enough to do waitressing but not any job...
Last week Randall Calvin interviewed Atheist Ireland chairperson Michael Nugent for skyzthelimi7 and Atheism TV.
... The Irish Independent today published this article by Michael Nugent about the human right to a secular education. It includes the key points that Atheist Ireland made in our response to the interim report of the Forum for Patronage and Pluralism in Irish Education. The...
Atheist Ireland welcomes the findings, from today’s report by We The Citizens, that more than eight in every ten Irish people want the church and state to be totally separate, and that 65% strongly agree that this should happen. We also welcome that seven in...
Spates of angry Amish hair cutting and Satan turning people gay in the womb were all brushed aside by a landslide victory from Iraq this month. The story that so swamped our polls was of 17-year-old student Rand Abdel-Qader – beaten to death by her...
Atheist Ireland is hosting a series of occasional lectures by prominent atheists. Here is the first one, with Professor AC Grayling, speaking last month in Dublin.
... Ensuring Effective Remedies for an Objective, Critical and Pluralistic Secular Education Atheist Ireland has responded to the interim report of the Forum on Patronage and Pluralism. The Forum is to send its final report to the Minister for Education by the end of December. We...