Back to school this week and, for many students, back to compulsory religion classes in Education & Training Boards (ETB) Schools and Colleges. Atheist Ireland has this month written about this to all sixteen ETBs, including the CEO and all the County Councillors on the various Boards. We also ask parents to contact ...
As primary schools open again, new teaching material for religious education in Catholic schools include images of the torture of a man and two young boys on a cross, as well as telling infants that a child-like Mary said yes to being impregnated by a visitor to her bedroom in the ...
Please read our article on ETBs and opting out of religion in conjunction with this: Cavan and Monaghan Education & Training Board John Kearney responded 11/8/16 "Issue has been referred to CMETB Corporate Services" Madeleine Argue – margue@cavancoco.ie Cathy Bennett – cathy.bennett@cllr.monaghancoco.ie Carmel Brady – carmelbrady@cavancoco.ie Colm Carthy – colm.carthy@cllr.monaghancoco.ie Seamus Coyle – seamus.coyle@cllr.monaghancoco.ie Eugene ...
The Vatican has published a new online course for the sex education of adolescents called the Meeting Point. It was developed with the help of the Subcommittee of the Family and the Defense of Life of the Spanish Episcopal Conference. The intention is that this new course on Vatican sex ...
According to an article in the Irish Catholic, the Iona Institute has said that removing religious education as a compulsory subject in schools would undermine the rights of parents. This was also a perspective echoed by the theology department of Mary Immaculate College (teacher training college). The Iona Institute is ...
It was reported in the Irish Times that the NCCA is examining how much time is allocated to religion during the school day in publicly funded primary schools. What is not mentioned is that the NCCA were instrumental in obliging schools to spend more time on religion, even outside the ...
A Catholic Church spokesperson has vindicated Atheist Ireland's analysis of the problems with the second level State Religious Education curriculum, showing both the hard and soft barriers to opting out of religious education in Irish schools. Father Liam Power, who is spokesperson for the Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore, told ...
In recent weeks, Atheist Ireland has researched hundreds of documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from the NCCA (National Council for Curriculum and Assessment) about how it devised the State Religious Education course at second level. This Religious Education course is supposed to be for all religions and none. ...
Atheist Ireland has used the Freedom of Information Act to examine more than 20 years of public records, describing how the Religious Education Curriculum at second level was created and delivered. What we have found is Church and State tightly entwined, in a process that overtly breaches the constitutional rights ...
Atheist Ireland has used the Freedom of Information Act to examine more than 20 years of public records, describing how the Religious Education Curriculum at second level was created and delivered. What we have found is Church and State tightly entwined, in a process that overtly breaches the constitutional rights ...
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