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Well, it would appear, based on the comments of the wonderfully verbose Cardinal (a fancy word for Mr.) Sean Brady in this Irish Times article, that allowing same-sex couples the legal right to marry or cohabitate and have that marriage/cohabitation recognised as a fully legal civil union, would result in Ireland turning into a country [...]
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Each time that we have brought up the issue of actively working to increase membership (at the AGM and at our local November meeting) the response from some Humanist Association of Ireland members has been (to paraphrase) that the organisation would be happy to accept new members but humanism is not a religion and we [...]
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A little light-reading. Skepchick applies some analsys and critical-thinking skills to Sean Sugrue, a psychic medium based in Dublin (sigh!)
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Just a quick note to highlight just what we are up against as atheists in this country. A recent piece in our very own Irish Independent can be seen here. This article perfectly illustrates the ignorance and intolerance of the religious mind – where truth is not a requirement, and all generalisations must be used [...]
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For my first post I thought I would comment on our meeting last weekend. At some point in the discussion the position of the HAI (who were visiting guests) was questioned, regarding the embryonic Atheist Ireland Association. What followed made me question the motives of the HAI. I was mystified at HAI’s seeming dismissal of any [...]
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more about “Something to make you smile…“, posted with vodpod
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They were walking to school in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a group of teenage girls discussing a test they had coming up, when two men on a motorcycle sprayed them with a strange liquid. Within seconds a painful tingling began, and there was an unusual smell as the skin of 16-year-old Atifa Biba [...]
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Not many claims made by the Irish clergy are widely or uncritically accepted. Even in Ireland. But the Saintliness of an Albanian nun named Agnes Bojaxhiu, is a proposition that’s accepted by many that are not even believers. -Christopher Hitchens Over the weekend I was at my aunt’s house, helping her out with some basic [...]
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It seems that this week is a good one for sceptical podcasts overlapping with our interests, as I’d like to point you towards another exceptional podcast worthy of your attention: Skeptoid is a podcast that runs for around ten minutes on average, critically examining claims from purveyors of pseudoscience in a clear-cut, informative, and thoroughly [...]
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Our next meeting is on 23rd November 2008 at 11:00 in the Castletroy Park Hotel. The last meeting was, I think successful. I would appreciate feedback from attendees about the format for our meetings. The opening round where people spoke of their own experiences and what motivated them to become freethinkers was particularly interesting and [...]
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