Atheist Northern Ireland has issued the following statement: Our colleagues Atheist Ireland have publicly dissociated from the harmful and hateful rhetoric of atheist blogger PZ Myers. This is a link to the Atheist Ireland statement. We’d like to extend our support for this move; we’ve witnessed the deteriorating relationship between Michael Nugent, chairperson of Atheist […]
Atheist Ireland today published this statement: Atheist Ireland is publicly dissociating itself from the hurtful and dehumanising, hateful and violent, unjust and defamatory rhetoric of the atheist blogger PZ Myers. The final of many, many straws were his latest smear that Ayaan Hirsi Ali is ‘happily exploiting atrocities’, and his subsequent description of Atheist Ireland’s […]
This is an actual conversation with a man at the atheist Ireland information table in Dublin on Saturday. Man taps finger aggressively on cover picture of Christopher Hitchens book ‘God is not Great’. Man: That’s sacrilege, that is.
On Friday I discussed religious faith and atheism at Easter with Church of Ireland Bishop Pat Storey and soprano singer Celine Byrne, on the Sean O’Rourke Show hosted by Keelin Shanley on RTE Radio 1.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali gave an important speech to the American Atheists Convention this weekend. She argued that Islam is significantly more dangerous than Christianity today, and that we should focus our limited campaigning resources where they are most effective in tackling injustice and persecution. In response, in his latest defamatory smear, PZ Myers has accused Ayaan, […]
Jane Donnelly and I recently met a group of Danish students who were in Ireland to study secularism, marriage equality and abortion.
Is religion still relevant? Extracts from my discussion with theologian Gina Menzies and Father Alan Hilliard on Newstalk Radio Breakfast Show yesterday.
I will be discussing religion in Ireland tomorrow morning, Wednesday 1 April, on Newstalk Radio Breakfast Show after 9 a.m. I will be discussing Easter on Friday morning, 3 April, on RTE Radio 1 Sean O’Rourke Show after 11 a.m.
I’ve been busy this week with the run-up to the opening night of I Keano in the Olympia tonight. The review shows have helped us to make some final tweaks in the script, and director Daryn Crosby and his cast and crew have created the best production yet of the show. Roy Keane came to […]
He came. He saw. He went home. Now he’s back. When I wrote I Keano with Arthur Mathews and Paul Woodfull in 2005, I didn’t think we would be bringing it back ten years later. But this week we are back in the Olympia Theatre in Dublin from Wednesday 25 March. If you liked it […]