About

I’m Michael Nugent, a writer from Dublin, Ireland, and chair of the advocacy group Atheist ireland. This blog is mainly about two issues that I’m very passionate about:

Understanding why and how people are happy, because happiness is the underlying reason that anybody wants anything, and
Promoting atheism, because I believe that the idea of gods is bad for society as it makes good people do bad things.

There will also be articles about other issues, both serious and silly, and various videos. I’m a political liberal, as you’ll probably guess from my posts. I grew up following Bohemians and Leeds United football clubs, and I am still coping with those addictions.

I’ve now lived for twenty years with my partner Anne and our six cats. Both Anne and I have been involved in various campaigns, mostly on social and justice issues and against paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland.

Here’s a list of my main writing projects so far: