The Irish State continues to help the Catholic Church to evangelise schoolchildren. In our education system, Church and State policy is to develop values to enable children to come to an understanding of the relevance of religion to their lives. Children are taught to respect religious beliefs and their codes ...
It is constitutionally impermissible to instruct a child in a religion other than its own without the knowledge and consent of its parents. Despite the above, most schools and teachers instruct children in a religion not of their own. Curriculum religious education instructs children in religions not of their own. ...
The recent case at the WRC in relation to religious discrimination shows clearly how the ETBs are not the solution to the problem of discrimination in our education system, but are part of the problem. The issue at the WRC case was that the school in its Admission policy said ...
The UN Human Rights Committee has raised the Irish education system in its List of Issues under the UN Convention on Civil and Political Rights. They raised the right to freedom of religion and belief in the Irish Education system. Atheist Ireland had made a Submission to the UN about ...
When Micheál Martin was Minister for Education twenty years ago, he supported and protected the Constitutional rights of parents and their children. As Minister for Education in 1999, he was in no doubt about the Constitutional right of students to attend schools without attending religious instruction. He added that his Department ...
Under the Education Act 1998, the Minister for Education is legally responsible for protecting the right of students to not attend any subject that is against their conscience. Section 30-2(e) of the Education Act 1998 states that:- “Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), the Minister— shall not require ...
Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the NCCA on the Draft Primary Curriculum Framework. Contents 1. Introduction 2. Constitutional and Human Rights of Atheists 3. The 1999 Primary School Curriculum 4. The Draft Primary Curriculum Framework 5. The Recommendation from the Forum on Patronage on ERB & Ethics 6. ...
Atheist Ireland sent our recent Legal Opinion on Article 44.2.4 of the Constitution to Education & Training Boards Ireland. Article 44.2.4 of the Constitution states that:- Legislation providing State aid for schools shall not discriminate between schools under the management of different religious denominations, nor be such as to affect ...
Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the UN Human Rights Committee. It is about what questions the UN should ask Ireland during its next questioning under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 1. Introduction to Atheist Ireland 2. Recommended questions 3. Article 2, Article 26 — ...
The Workplace Relations Commission has found that Yellow Furze National School in Meath discriminated on religious grounds against a family, in a case that Atheist Ireland raised publicly last September. The school is under Catholic patronage, and it gave homework passes to children who attended Catholic religious services. But it ...
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