Is the Catholic Church a Force for Good in the World?
This is the recent Intelligence Squared Debate which featured Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry arguing against the motion and Archbishop John Onaiyekan and Anne Widdencombe MP arguing for.

November Meeting.
Our next meeting will be as follows: Date                      :               10th November 2009 Time                      :               20:00 Venue                  :               Carlton Castletroy Park Hotel.  We are disappointed that our intended speaker from MarriagEquality has had to cancel.  She has promised to come to a future meeting.  So the agenda for next Tuesday will have to be a surprise for all.

Atheists feel left out
This information comes from a report in the Irish Times on a survey carried out by the Irish School of Ecumenics.  They surveyed 700 faith leaders and 900 lay people about a range of faith related topics.  12% of the lay people self identified as atheist or no religion and and they felt that when they are talking noone is listening.  The report states that this 12% is disproportinate to their numbers in the general population and I find this comment very interesting.  I think that the proportion of atheists in the population is larger and their survey is faulty in the way they selected their sample  Our survey was obviously limited to people who f

Atheist Ireland – Reaction to Italian Crucifix Ruling
This is me on Today FM yesterday. Thanks to Adam for putting this up on Youtube.

Special Investigation – Atheist Alert
Special Investigation – Atheist Alert