The Iona Institute has made a significant U-turn by finally registering as a third party with the Standards in Public Office Commission, just seven weeks after they made a declaration to the Commission that they did not consider that they had to register, and less than a week after Atheist Ireland challenged that decision in […]
I recently did an interview with the Vegetarian Society of Ireland about my transition to veganism, ethical atheism, and my favourite vegan recipes. You can read it here.
To mark Openly Secular Day on 23 April 2015, Atheist Ireland and Atheist Northern Ireland have recorded this video, along with our guests from America Aron Ra and Lilandra Ra.
Aron Ra, Texas State Director of American Atheists, and I spoke yesterday to an Atheist Ireland meeting about How Religion Harms Education, in the Davenport Hotel in Dublin. We were introduced by Jane Donnelly, Atheist Ireland’s Human Rights Officer. Lilandra Ra also spoke to the meeting about atheism in Texas.
Dear Ashley, Thank you for your open letter. I understand your feelings after waiting a week without a response from me to your last post. I’ve now been waiting three months without a response from the manager of your blog network, Ed Brayton, to an email about the network’s oversight mechanisms. You are correct that […]
Richard Carrier has just published some of the most vacuous and insulting of the recent smears against Atheist Ireland, Hemant Mehta and me. And so I have to again reschedule other activities, including finishing my response to the more considered posts by Ashley Miller, MA Melby and Secular Woman, in order to ensure that Richard’s […]
Atheist Ireland has registered with SIPO, the Standards in Public Office Commission, as we are a body that seeks to influence public policy. We have also written to the Standards Commission asking them to ask the Catholic Church, the Humanist Association of Ireland, and the Iona Institute to also register with them. One of Atheist Ireland’s […]
Metro Eireann is hosting a National Integration Conference and Debate on Thursday 30 April, from 10am to 2pm, in Saint Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9. The topic is: Does Ireland have a sustainable position on the issue of Integration? The keynote Speaker is Brian Lucey, Professor of Finance at the School of Business, Trinity College […]
Aron Ra, Texas State Director of American Atheists, will be speaking in Dublin next Tuesday evening at a public meeting organised by Atheist Ireland, about how religion harms education. It will be Aron’s first talk for Atheist Ireland since our successful World Atheist Convention in Dublin in 2011. The meeting is in the Davenport Hotel, […]
MA Melby has published a post satirising Atheist Ireland’s dissociation from PZ Myers by inventing an Institute of her own and dissociating that from comments on my blog. The second half of MA’s post is quite reasonable, and I will address it as part of my response to Ashley Miller’s recent post, and to another […]