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October 10, 2018 No Comments helen

Public meeting on Vote Yes to Remove the Blasphemy Law Cork

Public Meeting to Vote Yes to Remove the Blasphemy Law Cork When: 20th of October at 3pm Where Metropole Hotel Cork Public Meeting in Cork on Vote Yes to Remove the Blasphemy Law. Details of speakers to follow. Find this event on facebook and meetup. The Irish Constitution, written in ...

October 3, 2018 No Comments helen

Public Meeting on Vote Yes to Remove the Blasphemy Law Galway

Public Meeting on Vote Yes to Remove Blasphemy Law Galway When: 16th of October at 8pm Where Harbour Hotel Galway Public Meeting in Galway on Vote Yes to Remove the Blasphemy Law. Details of speakers to follow. The Irish Constitution, written in 1937, makes blasphemy an offence ...

October 2, 2018 No Comments helen

Public Meeting on Vote Yes to Remove the Blasphemy Law

Public Meeting on Vote Yes to Remove the Blasphemy Law When 13th of October at 3pm Where Buswells Hotel 23-27 Molesworth St Dublin Public Meeting including guest speakers David Nash, Blasphemy laws historian Michael Nugent, Atheist Ireland More speakers too follow. #BlasphemyRef The Irish Constitution, written in 1937, ...

September 25, 2018 No Comments helen

Launch of Campaign to Remove the Blasphemy Law

Launch of Campaign to Remove the Blasphemy Law When: Sunday the 30th of September - World Blasphemy Day at 2pm Where: The Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin Why: At 2pm this Sunday, 30th September, World Blasphemy Day, Atheist Ireland will officially launch a Campaign to Remove the Irish Blasphemy ...

September 16, 2018 No Comments helen

Irish Blasphemy law referendum – what you need to know

There will be a referendum on 26 October 2018 to remove the law against blasphemy from the Irish constitution. At the opening meeting of the campaign to remove the law, Michael Nugent outlines the history of the law and why it is important to vote yes to remove it. The ...

August 28, 2018 No Comments helen

Atheist Ireland welcomes referendum to repeal blasphemy law

Atheist Ireland had a very constructive meeting with the Department of Justice last month about the coming blasphemy referendum. Here we explain why we support the Minister’s approach to removing this anachronistic law, which is also harmful internationally. https://youtu.be/ndpn6grwMLg You can help us campaign to remove this law by donating ...

July 18, 2018 No Comments Michael Nugent

Atheist Ireland to meet Department of Justice today to discuss new blasphemy repeal bill

Atheist Ireland welcomes the published wording of the proposed amendment of the Constitution on around 25 October to repeal the offence of blasphemy. Atheist Ireland will be meeting this afternoon with officials in the Department of Justice, to clarify any technical or logistical questions that we have. We will then ...

June 23, 2018 No Comments John Hamill

Pakistan Blasphemy Laws In Ireland

One of the issues that Atheist Ireland has consistently cited while campaigning against the prohibition of blasphemy in Ireland, relates to our international obligations. Pakistan applies the death penalty for blasphemy, and has used verbatim language from Irish law when defending their position from international criticism. The distance between the ...

June 12, 2018 No Comments Michael Nugent

Atheist Ireland welcomes blasphemy referendum in October

Atheist Ireland welcomes the announcement that our decade-long campaign for a referendum on the blasphemy law has been successful. We will finally be able to vote in October to remove this anachronistic, silly, and dangerous clause from our constitution. The blasphemy ban is anachronistic, because we should be removing 1930s ...

September 27, 2017 5 Comments John Hamill

Referendum on blasphemy

Atheist Ireland welcomes the announcement today by An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, that our campaign for a referendum on blasphemy has been successful. There will be a referendum on the blasphemy provision within the Irish Constitution during October of 2018 and Atheist Ireland will be campaigning strongly to reform, update and ...