A new Atheist Ireland report shows that schools are defying a new law on admission policies. Carl O'Brien of the Irish Times has written about this report this morning. Section 62.7(n) of the Education (Admission to Schools) Act 2018 requires schools to publish an admission policy which will include details ...
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has published its List of Issues for when it next questions Ireland. Atheist Ireland made a joint submission to this process, along with the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland. The UN Committee has now asked the Irish State ...
Last year 41% of Marriages in Ireland were non-religious. Year by year this figure is growing. Despite this, the Department of Education still seeks to evangelise children from these families into a religious way of life. In addition, many children from non-religious families are left sitting at the back of the ...
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. ...
Most Irish schools insist that children, whose parents do not want them to attend religious instruction, must sit at the back of the class while religion is being taught. This is unconstitutional. Such children have the right to physically leave the classroom while religion is being taught. The inalienable rights ...
Atheist Ireland sent our recent Legal Opinion on the Constitutional Right to not attend religious instruction under Article 44.2.4 to the General Secretary of the ETBI Paddy Lavelle. The ETBI responded to us on behalf of all ETBs and claimed that the ETBI distinguishes between religious instruction and religious education. ...
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 ...
In an article in the Irish Times today the ETBs have again claimed that the right to not attend religious instruction under Article 44.2.4 of the Irish Constitution is confined to not attend religious instruction according to the rites of one religion. There is no legal basis for this opinion. ...
The State is still paying €9.8 million a year for Catholic and Church of Ireland Chaplains to engage in faith formation in some ETB schools. It is mostly Catholic Chaplains that are paid by the State as they are in the majority. The State sanctions the payment of Chaplains for ...
Religious discrimination in access to schools still exists. Minorities can still be refused access to their local school on religious grounds. Some publicly funded schools can still refuse access to children because they are not the right religion or have no religion or if they believe that your child will ...
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