A campaign for secular education
Conscience clauses in the Constitution
With all the talk about ‘conscience clauses’ and the same-sex marriage referendum we would like to remind Church and State that there is a ‘conscience clause’ in our Constitution regarding education that they ignore all the time. Article 42.3.1 of the Irish Constitution states that:- The State shall not oblige ...
Aron Ra, Texas State Director of American Atheists, will be speaking in Dublin next Tuesday evening at a public meeting organised by Atheist Ireland, about how religion harms education. It will be Aron's first talk for Atheist Ireland since our successful World Atheist Convention in Dublin in 2011. The meeting ...
In a recent speech the Secretary General of the Department of Education Sean O’Foghlu has claimed that the recently published Catholic Guidelines, “Catholic Primary Schools in a Changing Ireland – Sharing good Practice on Inclusion of All Pupils’, provide practical advice on timetabling and sacramental preparation, facilitating ‘opt-outs’ from religious ...
On 27th March of this year, a student at Dundalk IT called Nadia Williams, published a blog post that earned very widespread media coverage in Ireland and beyond. Nadia's piece described unwanted proselytising from the college and the story was described in national newspapers, such as the Sunday Times under the ...
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