This is the first Atheist Ireland report of our very successful briefing and lobbying session this week in Geneva. The United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights was questioning Ireland on its human rights obligations. Atheist Ireland was there along with other Irish civil society groups and the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. We still […]
Atheist Ireland has just made the following statement to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. We will next be attending a more detailed briefing session with UN Committee members, then the Committee will be questioning Ireland about its human rights record. The Twitter hashtag for the sessions is […]
This Monday and Tuesday, Atheist Ireland will be in Geneva, Switzerland, briefing the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights before the Committee questions Ireland on its human rights obligations. We will be working alongside our colleagues in other Irish civil society groups, pictured above, from: Abortion Rights Campaign Atheist Ireland Community Law […]
If the Football Association of Ireland publicly demands that FIFA be transparent, then the FAI must itself be transparent about the reported €5m that it secretly got from FIFA. On 3 December 2009 Sepp Blatter publicly ruled out FIFA giving financial compensation to the FAI, after a handball-assisted goal had helped to stop Ireland from […]
RTE has recently promoted a competition for new video for the Angelus, asking producers for ideas that enable members of all faiths and none to pray or reflect, under the title and chimes of the Angelus, which is a Catholic call to prayer. We recognise that RTE intends well in this, but we have serious concerns […]
Ireland is now seen as a world leader in secularism and equality after the successful marriage equality referendum result. I discussed this up-to-recently-unthinkable development on two international media outlets last week. Above is my video discussion with Maryam Namazie on Bread and Roses, and below is a link to my discussion with Annie Laurie Gaylor […]
This is my talk to the IBKA International Atheist Conference in Cologne, Germany, last Sunday, the day after the Irish marriage equality referendum win was announced. While I would have preferred to be in Ireland for the celebrations, it was invigorating to see the impact of the result on an international audience who had mostly […]
This is my talk today at the International Atheist Conference in Cologne, Germany. The theme of the conference was “Give Peace a Chance: Secularisation and Conflict.” There is a monument in Dublin to Charles Stewart Parnell, the 19th Century Irish politician, who memorably said: “No man has the right to fix the boundary of a […]
Atheist Ireland held a press conference yesterday to support a Yes vote for marriage equality on Friday 22 May, and a No vote to the Presidential age change referendum on the same day. The reason for both recommendations is the same: to protect and promote human rights, and to reduce religious discrimination in Ireland.
Today I discussed the Marriage Equality Referendum and other secular issues on the Trolling With Logic podcast.