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 denominational schools throughout the country ...
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 the level of support for ...
In Ireland, religious discrimination in education has become part of our culture. That is because of the deference of successive governments to the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church has no issue with discriminating against minorities on the basis of religion in order to control the education system. The Catholic bishops ...
Atheist Ireland met the Irish National Teachers' Organisation this week about religious discrimination in Irish schools against students and teachers, and how the INTO can help to counter that discrimination. We discussed the recent UNCRC Concluding Observations to Ireland about the rights of the child, and how Section 37 of ...
The Catholic Education Partnership has issued Guidelines and Resources for Boards of Management and teachers regarding the teaching Catholic sex education during curriculum SPHE in second level schools. You can access their Guidelines and Resources here. Guidance for Catholic Post-Primary Schools: Republic of Ireland Living Love – Relationship and Sexuality ...
Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to to The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission on the Draft Code of Practice on the Public Sector Equality and Human Rights Duty. 4. The purpose of the draft code is to reflect the relevant law and the definitions within the law. ...
According to the Supreme Court, the reason there is a right to home school in our Constitution is because of the right to freedom of conscience. Article 42.2 guarantees the right to home school, and this right was upheld by the Supreme Court in the Burke case in 2022. The ...
We don’t accept claims by church and state that publicly funded religious schools, particularly Catholic schools which are the majority, are inclusive and welcome and respect everyone equally. The reason we don't accept these claims is that the evidence of reality contradicts them, and we experience the injustice and hurt ...
Atheist Ireland met Minister for Children and Equality Roderic O’Gorman last week. Afterwards, we wrote the following to the Minister about the right to objective sex education. Dear Minister O'Gorman, the right to objective sex education is infringed by allowing Catholic schools to deliver the state curriculum in accordance with ...
The courts in Ireland have found that parents have a constitutional right to have religious education and religious formation in publicly funded schools. In order to remove this right from the Constitution, we would need a referendum. Any legislation that forbids religious education and formation in schools would be unconstitutional. ...
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