Today is five years since my wife Anne died of lung cancer. Five years is a long time, but it is only a fifth of the passionate quarter of a century in which we lived together and loved each other. Here is the tribute that I wrote to her shortly after she died. After she […]
Please share this with anyone you know who lives in Ireland. Thank you.
This page describes human rights breaches in Ireland that Sir Nigel Rodley has described as being connected to: “The institutional belief system that has predominated in the State Party, and which occasionally has sought to dominate the State Party” The page is for a resource United Nations delegates who are preparing for their States to […]
Supporting the right to die – my debate contribution at UCD yesterday.
Last week Atheist Ireland told a meeting of United Nations state delegates in Geneva that Ireland’s Constitution is incompatible with our human rights obligations in freedom of religion, blasphemy laws, religious discrimination in schools and religious oaths for politicians and judges. Atheist Ireland attended and spoke at the Pre-Session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) […]
Atheist Ireland today told a meeting of United Nations state delegates in Geneva that Ireland’s Constitution is incompatible with our human rights obligations in freedom of religion, blasphemy laws, religious discrimination in schools and religious oaths for politicians and judges. The UN is preparing to question Ireland in May about our human rights obligations under […]
Atheist Ireland will be in Geneva this week, to brief UN Human Rights Council members, as all UN countries prepare to question Ireland in May about Ireland’s human rights obligations under all UN treaties. This is one of our most important lobbying interventions since we were founded, and we have been preparing for it for […]
Atheist Ireland has declined an invitation from the Irish Government to attend today’s State Ceremony at the GPO, and State Reception in Dublin Castle, marking the 100th anniversary of the 1916 rising. We welcome the intention of the Government to be inclusive of people of all religious and nonreligious beliefs in these events. Atheist Ireland […]
Is the Catholic Church losing its power? My debate with Father Peter McVerry and Prof Fainche Ryan on Tonight with Vincent Bowne on TV3, hosted by Michael Clifford this week.
Above, Jane Donnelly, Human Rights Officer of Atheist Ireland, explains how private patron bodies enforce religious discrimination in Irish schools, at a public meeting organised by the Workers Party this Wednesday. Below are the contributions of Jane, Clare Daly TD, and the meeting’s chairperson, Cllr Éilis Ryan of the Workers Party.