Religious discrimination in state schools is based on “historic traditions”, says Department of Education
In Ireland we have mostly publicly funded religious schools and some publicly funded state schools, and they all discriminate on religious grounds. Atheist Ireland is in correspondence with the Dept of Education regarding the nine state schools where they are patron. You can read about past correspondence here and here ...
Are “Catholic first” Admission Policies unconstitutional? Equality Authority report endorses Atheist Ireland arguments
Atheist Ireland’s ongoing campaign to ensure that publicly funded schools do not discriminate on religious grounds is picking up pace, with our arguments effectively endorsed by both the Equality Authority and the Irish Human Rights Commission, the two bodies that have recently merged to form the new Irish Human Rights ...
School ethos or religious discrimination
Is questioning employees or job candidates on their religion school ethos or religious discrimination. Joe Humphreys writes in the Irish Times 21st January 2015 that "the Catholic Church’s main spokesman on education has defended the right of its schools to question employees on whether they support the school’s religious ethos during interviews". ...