The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) is reviewing Relationships and Sexuality Education in primary and post-primary schools. Atheist Ireland has made the following submission to the review. Please feel free to incorporate our arguments into your own submission if you are making one. Atheist Ireland Submission to the ...

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Jane Donnelly, Human Rights Officer of Atheist Ireland, yesterday gave evidence to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education about the need for objective sex education. Jane is pictured above with Cliona Saidlear of Rape Crisis Network Ireland, Aoife Neary of University of Limerick, and Debbie Ging of DCU, who also ...

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Atheist Ireland has made a comprehensive submission to the Oireachtas Education Committee, asking it to support objective sex education in Irish schools, based on the framework of Solidarity's Objective Sex Education Bill. You can read Atheist Ireland's submission here. Our four recommendations to the Oireachtas Education Committee are: 1. Objective ...

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Atheist Ireland is delighted that Solidarity’s Objective Sex Education Bill has passed its first vote today in the Dail. It will now go on to be debated at Committee stage. Along with our allies in other groups who support this Bill, we will now lobby members of the Oireachtas Education ...

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Following today's decision by Fianna Fail to oppose Solidarity's Objective Sex Education Bill, and Fine Gael's decision to not oppose it, it is important that all TDs are present at the vote tomorrow (Thursday 19 April) to ensure that it is passed. Atheist Ireland has tonight sent this email to ...

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Atheist Ireland has written to all TDs and Senators seeking support for Solidarity’s Objective Sex Education Bill, which will be proposed in the Dail on Wednesday, 18 April 2018. If passed, this Bill will guarantee that all children in Irish schools have access to objective relationship and sexuality education, without ...

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Solidarity TD Mick Barry launched the Objective Sex Education Bill at a Press Conference in Cork today.  This Bill is the first of its kind. If passed it will mean that all children can access objective sex education without religious influence. The Bill will be debated in the Dail next ...

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Atheist Ireland supports the Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018 that Solidarity has introduced. If passed in the Oireachtas, it would mean that all students in Ireland could for the first time have access to objective Sex Education. This is a policy that Atheist Ireland has been actively promoting. ...

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