Back to school and back to €10 million for Chaplains. Mostly Catholic and some Church of Ireland chaplains cost the state approx €10 million per year. Chaplains are paid to help mainly Catholic parents with the religious education and religious formation of their children outside of the religious instruction class ...
Today the High Court has ordered the arrest of Enoch Burke, a teacher in a Church of Ireland School, for breaching the terms of an injunction to not attend the school. He was suspended because of his behaviour at a religious service and dinner, but has continued to turn up for work. ...
Children are heading back to school, and parents are again left in the position that they must negotiate their Constitutional rights with the school. This is what minorities have to put up with in our Republic. Schools give no practical application to our Constitutional rights, and the Department of Education, ...
Syllabus Religious Education at second level is not an objective course about religions and beliefs, and parents have a Constitutional right to ensure that their children do not attend this class. You can find information, and a sample letter for Catholic and ETB schools and colleges, on our website Teach, ...
In Loreto second level school in Balbriggan, students who exercise their Constitutional right to not attend religious instruction are referred to as 'NPRE students', and their parents are referred to as 'parents of NPRE students'. 'NPRE' stands for Non Participation in Religious Education. It could more accurately be described as ...
Pope Francis has confirmed that Catholic education is evangelisation, and has compared not speaking the truth about God in education to burning books, during a private reception in the Vatican on 22 April for educators including from Mary Immaculate College in Limerick. He also told a gathering of Christian Brothers ...
In the last few weeks parents of children who are starting school this September are attending meetings in schools where information about the school and the procedures is conveyed. Unfortunately no information is given on the right to not attend religious instruction at these meetings or in the Admission policies ...
The United Nations Human Rights Committee is questioning Ireland in July about our human rights record under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, or ICCPR. Atheist Ireland has made the following submission about Freedom of Conscience, Religion, and Belief. You can also read it here on the United Nations ...
Catholic Bishops lobbied the Government last June to change the law, so they could once again be allowed to discriminate against non-Catholic children in access to publicly funded primary schools. RTE's Emma O'Kelly reported that the Bishops said their support for divesting a small number of publicly funded primary schools ...
The Public Accounts Committee wrote this letter to Atheist Ireland on 17 May 2022. [pdf-embedder url="https://www.teachdontpreach.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/S0849-PAC33-Atheist-Ireland-mtg-28.04.2022.pdf" title="S0849 PAC33 - Atheist Ireland mtg 28.04.2022"]
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