UN again tells Ireland to provide secular schools and remove religious oaths
Atheist Ireland welcomes today’s concluding observations of the UN Human Rights Committee, which again tell Ireland to provide secular education by establishing non-denominational schools, and to further amend the Employment Equality Act to bar all forms of discrimination against teachers and medical workers. The UN Committee has also told Ireland ...
Atheist Ireland letter to Public Accounts Committee July 2022
Atheist Ireland wrote this letter to the Public Accounts Committee on 27 July 2022. [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AI-to-PAC-27-July-2022.pdf" title="AI to PAC 27 July 2022"]
Loreto school in Balbriggan wants to control ‘NPRE’ parents and their children
In Loreto second level school in Balbriggan, students who exercise their Constitutional right to not attend religious instruction are referred to as 'NPRE students', and their parents are referred to as 'parents of NPRE students'. 'NPRE' stands for Non Participation in Religious Education. It could more accurately be described as ...
Pope confirms Catholic education is evangelisation
Pope Francis has confirmed that Catholic education is evangelisation, and has compared not speaking the truth about God in education to burning books, during a private reception in the Vatican on 22 April for educators including from Mary Immaculate College in Limerick. He also told a gathering of Christian Brothers ...
Ireland misleads United Nations about nondenominational schools
Atheist Ireland had this letter published in the Irish Times this week following the UN Human Rights Committee questioning Ireland under International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Minister Roderic O’Gorman told the UN Human Rights Committee this week that Ireland aims to have 400 multi-denominational primary schools by 2030. ...
Public Accounts Committee letter to Atheist Ireland July 2022
The Public Accounts Committee wrote this letter to Atheist Ireland 4 July 2022. [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/S0914-PAC33-Atheist-Ireland-mtg-02.06.2022.pdf" title="S0914 PAC33 - Atheist Ireland mtg 02.06.2022"]