This is my contribution, in support of legalising abortion, at yesterday’s debate in the University of Limerick. The Youth Defence/Pro-Life speakers declined to give permission for video of their contributions to be published. When we were addressing the recent Oireachtas hearings on abortion, a lot of opponents of legalised abortion were worried about a line […]
This list has been added to and updated, along with an Atheist Song of the Week. You can now find the list of Atheist Songs at this link. .
Would you like to meet some other atheists for a Sunday brunch once a month? It’s nothing formal, just getting together for a meal and a chat at midday on the second Sunday of every month. We hope that it will help to cater for people who can’t easily get to the evening events that […]
I’ve just watched Spielberg’s Lincoln, which as well as recording the fate of the bill to ban slavery as the civil war wound down, addresses how Lincoln faced unbearable conflicting pressures from both political opponents and supporters, as well as from within his own family. Because the story itself is familiar, the movie stands or […]
In a masterstroke of patronizing sexism, The Irish Catholic newspaper has criticized Senator Ivana Bacik for not behaving like a gentleman during the recent parliamentary hearings on abortion law. In an opinion piece titled ‘We can’t be cowed by shrill voices’, editor Michael Kelly wrote: “Ms Bacik clearly disagrees with the Catholic view that all […]
David Quinn of the Iona Institute, like the Irish Catholic Bishops, is trying to promote the fiction that there is (or should be) a Church-State dialogue process that excludes nonreligious groups. He has described as ‘inexplicable’ that Atheist Ireland took part in the recent Oireachtas hearings on abortion laws during the same session as some […]
In Ireland, parents have a constitutional right to opt their children out of school classes, including religious education, if what is being taught is not consistent with their philosophical beliefs. In practice, it is hard to exercise this constitutional right, because some schools will not supervise children who opt out and because the Catholic ethos […]
The Irish Catholic Bishops are misrepresenting their meeting with the Government last Friday as part of “the Church-State structured dialogue process.” After the meeting Cardinal Sean Brady said “It is in the common good of Irish society to have in place a vibrant and organised structure where the Catholic Church – as well as other […]
Atheist Ireland has written to the Taoiseach requesting to meet him and ministers and officials, under the structured process of dialogue between the Government and churches, faith bodies and non-confessional bodies. Atheist Ireland is a partner in this dialogue process, having been accepted as such at a meeting with officials of the Taoiseach’s Department in September […]
I wrote this opinion piece for the Irish Independent earlier this week. GALWAY City Councillor Padraig Conneely is being irresponsible in suggesting that putting a burglar on a slab would put an end to robberies in his area. Shooting burglars does not solve the problem of crime. It causes the problem to escalate, because criminals […]