Under the Irish Constitution, parents have a right to ensure that their children do not attend religious instruction in publicly funded schools. Article 44.2.4 of the Constitution refers specifically to the right to ‘not attend’ which is of course different to ‘not participating’ in religious instruction. Article 44.2.4 of the ...
Atheist Ireland has sent a Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee, which will be questioning Ireland in October under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. One issue we have raised is religious discrimination and freedom of conscience in schools. Atheists, humanists and secularists face discrimination in seeking ...
Atheist Ireland has sent a Submission to the UN Human Rights committee under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. We raised the issue of religious discrimination in the School Transport scheme at second level. Atheists, humanists and secularists are discriminated against in the School Transport scheme as the ...
Publicly funded schools are obliged to use their existing funding to supervise students outside the religious instruction class. The recent Legal Opinion that Atheist Ireland obtained confirms that schools cannot refuse to supervise children outside the religious instruction class on the basis that they do not get enough funding from ...
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