Religious Worship and Instruction in ETB non – designated Community Colleges All Education and Training Board (ETB) non-designated Community Colleges at second level are obliged to ensure that there is religious worship and instruction in the college. These Community Colleges are referred to as State multi-Denominational colleges. They are also ...
Catholic Church in Ireland campaign to maintain privileged position in schools The Catholic Church in Ireland campaign to maintain their privileged position by claiming that:- "To equate all religions is to empty them of any significance". How does treating equally all religions and philosophical convictions empty them of significance? The ...
No non-denominational schools in Irish education system The Minister for Education and Skills Jan O’Sullivan is the patron of nine state run religious schools. These nine schools are the old Model schools and they are not non-denominational despite being under the patronage of the Minister. The Report from the Forum ...
Religious Crests on school uniforms symbols of discrimination Atheist Ireland welcomes the comments of the Anglican Archbishop of Dublin regarding religious crests on school uniforms. In an article in the Sunday Independent Archbishop Michael Jackson (Anglican Archbishop of Dublin and Glendalough) said there should be "scope for negotiation" around the ...
Irish law effectively prohibits non-denominational secular schools based on human rights, despite the Irish Government telling the UN Human Rights Committee last month that there are no obstacles to establishing such schools in Ireland. The Government did outline two requirements to the UN, that the Government seemingly doesn't consider to ...
Educate Together has made two statements recently that undermine the duty of the Irish Government to provide secular education though new non-denominational schools, as required by the UN Human Rights Committee. Educate Together is doing this by blurring the distinction between multi-denominational schools (which Educate Together schools are) and non-denominational ...
This July Ireland will be examined by the UN Human Rights Committee under the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights. By ratifying this UN Treaty Ireland has guaranteed to protect the Human Rights guaranteed in the Treaty to all within its territory. Atheist Ireland will be attending this session ...
At the heart of the objections of atheists/secularists to the state Religious Education course at second level is that it disrespects their philosophical convictions and breaches their human rights. Atheist/secular families believe that the State is pursuing an aim of indoctrination by not respecting their philosophical convictions as the aims ...
When secular parents complain about discrimination in National schools they are sometimes met with the response that they can home school their children. The European Court has stated that this is not a valid option as few parents have the resources to home school their children. Many secular parents do ...
This week’s European Court judgment in the Louise O’Keeffe case changes everything in the campaign for secular education in Ireland. The State was arguing that it was not responsible for protecting Louise O’Keeffe’s human rights while she was in school, because the State did not run the school directly. The ...
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