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 ...
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 ...
The Minister for Education & Skills Richard Bruton today said that the government has approved a new Education (Admissions to schools) Bill. This new government will not be removing religious discrimination in access to schools, but access is not even the main problem. There is no point in getting access ...
Atheist Ireland yesterday made this Submission to the Consultation process, started by the new Minister for Education Richard Bruton, on his Statement of Strategy 2016- 2018. Introduction Atheist Ireland is an Irish advocacy group. We promote atheism and reason over superstition and supernaturalism, and we promote an ethical, secular society where ...
Nearly all second level Education and Training Board Schools and Colleges have Catholic Religious Instruction and worship. In an article in the Irish Times today about community and comprehensive secondary schools, the General Secretary of the Department of Education, Sean O'Foghlu, is quoted as stating that:- "Seán Ó Foghlú said the ...
The President of a Catholic school management association seems to believe that Catholic schools have a responsibility to disrespect atheist and secular parents’ convictions and undermine their human rights, and that children who are not educated to grow in faith are in danger of despair, nihilism and self-harm. In a recent speech, Father Paul Connell, ...
Some people have suggested that those who ticked the ‘no religion’ box in the census may be spiritual, and therefore in some way more religious than atheist. There was no specific box in the recent census to tick if you see yourself as spiritual and also religious. You had the option of ...
A recent article in the Irish Times regarding the requirement to study the Koran as part of the Leaving Certificate Arabic exam raises some very interesting questions for the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA). Approximately 200 students take the Leaving Certificate Arabic exam and they must study extracts ...
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