Author : Michael Nugent

Statement made by Michael Nugent Chairperson Atheist Ireland To OSCE Human Rights Meeting Warsaw, Poland, 1 October 2012 The OSCE has hosted events to specifically combat discrimination against Christians, Muslims and Jews. We request a similar event to specifically combat discrimination against atheists and agnostics. For example, in Ireland, atheist parents are denied secular education […]

Atheist Ireland will this Monday, October 1st, attend the annual OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) human rights meeting in Warsaw in Poland, where we will speak against blasphemy laws, religious oaths and the need for secular education. Atheist Ireland will also host a side meeting to highlight the need to respect the […]

This is my contribution to the TCD Historical Society debate yesterday on the motion that this house hopes science will be the death of faith.

This is my contribution to the UCD Law Society debate yesterday on the motion that the Catholic Church has become irrelevant.

Last week the European Union, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the Arab League and the Commission of the African Union released an absurd and dangerous joint statement, expressing ‘the importance of respecting all prophets’, and ‘strongly committing to take further measures’ to work for ‘full respect of religion’. The joint statement was inspired by the […]

There are updates on two important blasphemy cases in Pakistan and Indonesia, both of which require a redoubling of campaigns for the victims. Rimsha Masih, the 14 year old Christian Pakistani girl arrested for allegedly burning pages from the Quran, was released on bail on Saturday after more than three weeks in jail. Her lawyer, […]

This is my debate on RTE radio this morning about blasphemy laws in Ireland and internationally, with Dr Oliver Scharbrodt, lecturer in Islamic Studies in UCC, hosted by RTE’s Miriam O’Callaghan.

Mary Lawlor was given up for adoption in 1960. On the 12th of July this year, at fifty-two years of age, she learned that she has a brother. He was born on the 18th of July in 1963 and shipped to America in 1965. Mary is now trying to find him, and bring him into […]

This is a list of over two thousand women, from different parts of the world and with different areas of expertise, who would make excellent speakers at atheist, skeptic, scientific or human rights events. If you can’t invite any of them specifically, the list may trigger ideas of similar women who you can invite. It began as […]

In July, I published an article on why atheist and skeptic groups should be inclusive, caring and supportive, and how to discuss this reasonably. After reading the feedback to that article, I have written this draft manifesto to promote ethical atheism. I will write a revised version based on the feedback to this draft. The […]