Over the past fifty years, the Irish education system has evolved to include religious discrimination that was not intended to be there. The influence of the Catholic Church has undermined attempts by politicians to respect and balance the Constitutional rights of all families. Please lobby your politicians to introduce legal ...
In most schools in Ireland the State Religious Education course is taught through the lens of the Catholic Church. Students are told that the course is suitable for all religions and none. Many students are coerced and some are forced into taking the course. The arrangements for students who wish ...
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 ...
In 2019, four in every ten marriages in Ireland were non-religious. More people are making the decision that religion is not relevant to their life, and ensuring that the significant occasions in their lives are not celebrated and recognised by religion. While this shift was taking place Church and State ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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