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7 June 2011

Blog Round-up after the Conference

Here’s a round-up of some of the thoughts on the conference from various people around the web. UPDATE: A Gloriously Godless Weekend (Part 1 )from Adventures of a Middle-Aged Boy is up: “The weekend began – as all weekends should – on Thursday.” Part 2...

1 June 2011

The really, truly True Believer™ of the Month Award May 2011

Another month of two winners. Can Atheists not agree on anything. Herding cats indeed 🙂 The first of the winners is Kirk Cameron… the guy who on a hot day once started talking to himself in cars and decided that rather than this meaning he...

1 June 2011

Dublin Declaration on Religion in Public Life – opinions welcome

This weekend, June 3-5, the World Atheist Convention will take place in Dublin. On Sunday we will discuss and adopt the Dublin Declaration on Religion in Public Life. This will be a follow-up to the Copenhagen Declaration that was adopted at last year’s convention in...

21 May 2011

World Atheist Conference is now sold out!

In spite of the impending Rapture, tickets to the World Atheist Conference are now sold out. We’re looking forward to meeting you all in Dublin on the 3rd of June.

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10 May 2011

Aron-Ra and D.P.R. Jones join our line-up

Atheist Ireland is delighted to announce that influential internet activists Aron-Ra and D.P.R. Jones have joined our exciting line-up. D.P.R. Jones is well known for his videos on religion, science and philosophy and is host of The Magic Sandwich Show. Aron-Ra is a passionate advocate...

9 May 2011

Parents talk about the obstacles in obtaining a secular education for their child in Ireland

Alex Meehan of the Sunday Business Post interviewed some parents recently who have persevered in trying to get a secular education for their children. Although parents have the right to ask for their children to be exempted from religious classes at school in Ireland, those...

1 May 2011

The really, truly True Believer™ of the Month Award April 2011

Theist obsession with sex figures yet again in this months winners list as we have two winners in joint first place around the topic of sex and sexuality. The first of the winners is the lugubrious Bill O’Donoghue who sees fit to tell us that...

8 April 2011

Atheist Ireland review of busy year's activity for 2011 AGM

Atheist Ireland’s third Annual General meeting will take place this weekend, on Saturday 9 April 2011, in the Gresham Metropole Hotel in Cork. Here is a review of the work that we have done since our second AGM in July 2010. 1. Secular Irish Constitution...

8 April 2011

Atheist Ireland review of busy year’s activity for 2011 AGM

Atheist Ireland’s third Annual General meeting will take place this weekend, on Saturday 9 April 2011, in the Gresham Metropole Hotel in Cork. Here is a review of the work that we have done since our second AGM in July 2010. 1. Secular Irish Constitution...

5 April 2011

The really, truly True Believer™ of the Month Award March 2011

Child Abuse figured heavily in this month’s polling results for the award. As usual when it appears the Vatican figured high in the polls. This month’s claim from their Top Exorcist is that the increase in child sex abuse and rape claims is the fault...