We live in a Country where the desire of some people for a religious education for their children takes precedence over the right of other parents not to have their children evangelised into religion while accessing education. Non-religious families are discriminated against on religious grounds, and when most of these ...
The Equal Participation in Schools Bill 2016 will be debated in the Dail next Tuesday night between 8pm and 10pm. If passed this Bill would ensure that all children and their parents have access to an education system with equal respect and dignity and where their human rights are guaranteed. ...
All the various types of Education and Training Board Schools and Colleges in Ireland are obliged to have Religious Instruction and Worship. As far as we are aware at this stage the religious instruction and worship is Catholic. The ETBs refer to their schools as multi – Denominational. Multi - ...
Publicly funded schools with a Catholic ethos ignore legislation and policy and successive Ministers for Education have done nothing about it. The Irish State refuses to challenge the Catholic Church even when it means they are clearly ignoring this policy and legislation. In Ireland one of the key issues in ...
According to their Faith Formation Policy, Mount Anville Secondary School in Dublin obliges children to attend religious services but they claim that they won’t make any effort to proselytise! This is what parents and children in Ireland have to put up despite the fact that opting out of religion is ...
CEIST is a second level Catholic Patron Body (Trustee) of 110 publicly funded second level schools. According to their Annual Report for 2015, they received €289,000 in Licence Fees from the 110 schools where they are the Patron. One of the things the schools got for this Licence Fee was ...
A United Nations Committee has recommended that Ireland should integrate objective compulsory sex education into the school curriculum, and should closely monitor and evaluate its delivery by schools. This is a result of Atheist Ireland raising this issue with the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). It is the ...
Holy Child School, Killiney, forces Muslim students into Catholic Liturgies. This is a publicly funded Le Cheile second level school (A Catholic schools Trust). This is the second school we have found with this policy. Colaiste Bride in Clondalkin also forces Muslim students into Catholic Liturgies. Their policy is exactly ...
In response to an issue raised by Atheist Ireland in relation to students being forced into religious ceremonies, the Minister for Education, Richard Bruton has again stated that students cannot be forced into religious instruction or ceremonies against the wishes of their parents. Atheist Ireland had raised the issue of ...
Atheist Ireland welcomes that the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Nils Muiznieks, has told the Irish Government that the State is responsible for ending the breaches of human rights of atheist and minority faith pupils and parents in Irish schools. When Commissioner Muiznieks visited Ireland last November, he ...
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