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. ...
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 ...
Atheist Ireland has obtained a legal opinion from barrister James Kane on the Constitutional right to not attend religious instruction under Article 44.2.4. The Irish Times has reported on it here. You can read the full Legal Opinion here. The legal opinion covers the right to not attend religious teaching, ...
The state Religious Education course developed by the NCCA disrespects atheists and humanists. The course was recently updated and introduced into second-level schools in September 2019. Despite superficial changes, the updated version is no better than the previous one. It is not an objective course about religions, beliefs and ethics. ...
The Workplace Relations Commission has published the recent case that found Yellow Furze National School in Meath had discriminated on religious grounds against a family. You can find the case here The school is under Catholic patronage, and it gave homework passes to children who attended Catholic religious services. But ...
Catholic education undermines the Constitutional rights of parents to respect for their philosophical convictions. The vast majority of schools in Ireland have a Catholic ethos. This includes ETB schools. The Irish Constitution (Article 42.1) recognises the inalienable right of parents to respect for their convictions. Regardless of this right, minority ...
The Catholic Church is still trying to undermine the right of parents to opt their children out of religion classes. They are now trying to ensure that the arrangements for opting out are kept secret and that parents are not consulted. This is contrary to the Education (Admissions to Schools) ...
In Irish schools, religious teaching is an optional subject. It doesn’t matter whether it is the NCCA Religious Education course or a Patron’s Programme such as Catholic Religious Education. They are both optional subjects. It doesn't matter if the school says that it is compulsory or a core subject. It ...
In its recently updated Guidelines on the inclusion of other beliefs in Catholic second-level schools, the Catholic Church claims that Catholic schools do not teach religious instruction anymore. The reason that the Church is claiming that Catholic schools don’t do religious instruction anymore is because of the recently commenced Section ...
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