Documents about misuse of state funds regarding religious instruction
Since December 2021, Atheist Ireland has been lobbying to vindicate the constitutional right to not attend religious instruction in schools, and to uphold parental authority in the education of their children, which the Supreme Court has described as a foundational pillar of the Constitution. As well as lobbying individual politicians ...
Atheist Ireland letter to Department of Education December 2022
Atheist Ireland wrote this letter to the Department of Education on 5 December 2022. [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AI-to-Dept-Ed-Dec-2022.pdf" title="AI to Dept Ed Dec 2022"]
Atheist Ireland letter to Oireachtas Education Committee December 2022
Atheist Ireland wrote this letter to the Oireachtas Education Committee on 5 December 2022. [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AI-to-Ed-Com-Dec-2022.pdf" title="AI to Ed Com Dec 2022"]
Atheist Ireland letter to Comptroller and Auditor General December 2022
Atheist Ireland wrote this letter to the Comptroller and Auditor General on 5 December 2022. [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AI-to-CAG-Dec-2022.pdf" title="AI to CAG Dec 2022"]
Atheist Ireland letter to Public Accounts Committee December 2022
Atheist Ireland wrote this letter to the Public Accounts Committee on 5 December 2022. [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AI-to-PAC-Dec-2022.pdf" title="AI to PAC Dec 2022"]
Parents, not church or state, have the right to provide religious and moral education
The Catholic Bishops wrote to the Dept of Education in 2018, in relation to Circular Letter 0013/2018 issued by the Department of Education. This Circular obliged ETB schools to give students another subject if they exercised their right to not attend religious instruction. It recognised that schools should offer students ...
Public Accounts Committee letter to Atheist Ireland November 2022
The Public Accounts Committee wrote this letter to Atheist Ireland on 22 November 2022. [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/S1082-PAC33-Atheist-Ireland-mtg-27.10.2022.pdf" title="S1082 PAC33 Atheist Ireland mtg 27.10.2022"]
Atheist Ireland letter to Public Accounts Committee October 2022
Atheist Ireland wrote this letter to the Public Accounts Committee on 18 October 2022 [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/AI-to-PAC-Oct-2022.pdf" title="AI to PAC Oct 2022"]
Public Accounts Committee letter to Atheist Ireland October 2022
The Public Accounts Committee wrote this letter to Atheist Ireland 10 October 2022. [pdf-embedder url="https://teachdontpreach.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/PAC-to-AI-Oct-2022.pdf" title="PAC to AI Oct 2022"]
Atheist Ireland, Evangelical Alliance, and Ahmadi Muslims update the UN on rights of children
Atheist Ireland, the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland, and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland, made a joint submission to the UN Children's Rights Committee as it prepares to question Ireland next January. You can read that submission here. We also met with the UN Committee last week in Geneva, along ...