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7 November 2023

How state statistics and schools disrespect Spiritualist and Pagan minority religions

The CSO figures report that there were 3,350 Spiritualists in the country in 2022. That is, 3,350 people ticked the ‘other religion, if any’ box and wrote in ‘spiritualist’ as their religion. Yet the marriage figures from the Central Statistics Office show that in 2022...

29 October 2023

Plurality of patronage will never achieve pluralism in education

Opening up 400 multi denominational schools throughout the country will never achieve pluralism in education. The policy of successive governments is to segregate children in some areas of the country on the basis of their parents’ religion. Even if the state opened up 400 multi...

26 October 2023

One in five Irish people either told census they have no religion (14%) or declined to answer (7%)

Five years to the day after the public voted to remove Blasphemy as a crime, from the Constitution in the 2018 referendum, detailed figures have emerged today from the CSO showing Ireland is becoming more and more pluralist with each census. Top level figures published...

8 October 2023

Secular Sunday #615 – Equal status for nonreligious beliefs

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1 October 2023

Secular Sunday #614 – Voting on parents’ rights in schools?

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30 September 2023

Parents’ rights in schools should not depend on surveying the views of their neighbours

The Department of Eduction is continuing the fiction that the government is transferring patronage of Catholic primary schools in any meaningful way. The Department is also complicating the matter by saying that parents of pupils at Catholic primary schools are to be surveyed to assess...

24 September 2023

Secular Sunday #613 – 11 new blasphemy laws

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17 September 2023

Secular Sunday #612 – UN Human Rights 75 Pledge 2

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17 September 2023

Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression – United Nations Human Rights 75 Pledge by Atheist Ireland

Atheist Ireland has made a pledge to the United Nations Human Rights 75 initiative to oppose laws against blasphemy and promote freedom of expression. 1. Background to Atheist Ireland Atheist Ireland is a voluntary advocacy group based in Ireland. We have Special Consultative Status at...

10 September 2023

Secular Sunday #611 – UN Human Rights 75 Pledge

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