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April 26, 2020 No Comments Teach Dont Preach

How can a five-year-old child undermine a school’s religious ethos?

Despite what some people think, the Education (Admissions to Schools) Act 2018 has not removed the religious discrimination in access to schools in Ireland. Minority faith primary schools and any religious secondary school can still give preference to co-religionists. And Catholic schools can still refuse access to children who they ...

May 9, 2018 No Comments Teach Dont Preach

Atheist Ireland, Evangelical Alliance, and Ahmadi Muslims welcome plan to end religious discrimination in access to schools

Minister for Education Richard Bruton has announced plans to prohibit State-funded primary schools run by the Catholic Church from discriminating in access on the ground of religion, but which will allow State-funded schools run by minority religions to continue to discriminate on the ground of religion if they are oversubscribed. ...

March 30, 2017 4 Comments Teach Dont Preach

Another Catholic School forces Muslim students into Catholic Liturgies. So where did this policy come from?

Holy Child School, Killiney, forces Muslim students into Catholic Liturgies. This is a publicly funded Le Cheile second level school (A Catholic schools Trust). This is the second school we have found with this policy. Colaiste Bride in Clondalkin also forces Muslim students into Catholic Liturgies. Their policy is exactly ...

March 22, 2017 No Comments Teach Dont Preach

Schools Admissions Process Submission

On Monday Atheist Ireland sent the following to the Submission to Department of Education Public Consultation Process on the role of Denominational Religion In the School Admissions Process. Introduction Atheist Ireland is an Irish advocacy group. We promote atheism and reason over superstition and supernaturalism, and we promote an ethical, ...

December 28, 2015 No Comments Teach Dont Preach

Jan O’Sullivan enforces religious discrimination in schools where she herself is patron

The Minister of Education, Jan O’Sullivan has called for places to be set aside in National Schools with a religious ethos, for unbaptised children. The Minister is quoted as stating that:- “I recognise the right of denominational schools to protect their ethos,” she said in an interview with The Irish ...

November 10, 2014 3 Comments Teach Dont Preach

State fails to explain religious discrimination in schools that the State runs directly

Irish State fails to explain religious discrimination in schools it runs directly The Department of Education has failed to explain why there is religious discrimination in access to even the few primary schools that the State runs directly, never mind in the schools where it cedes control to religious patrons. ...

November 3, 2014 1 Comment Teach Dont Preach

Even two schools directly run by the State have discrimination on religious grounds. Why?

Why does Irish State discriminate on religious grounds in two schools it runs directly? Ireland has nine State schools at primary level where the Minister for Education & Skills is patron. Last June Atheist Ireland wrote to the Dept of Education asking why as Patron they discriminate on religious grounds ...

October 15, 2014 1 Comment Teach Dont Preach

Religious Worship and Instruction in ETB non – designated Community Colleges.

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 ...

September 23, 2014 No Comments Teach Dont Preach

Ireland has no non-denominational schools. Even the nine schools directly run by the state are religious

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 ...

August 3, 2014 1 Comment Teach Dont Preach

Children have a human right to a neutral studying environment, even in denominational schools

Last month Ireland appeared before the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva under the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (ICCPR). Every five years the UN questions Ireland in relation to their human rights obligations under the Covenant. In relation to the right to freedom of conscience and the ...