The Catholic Church in Ireland is under fire after a researcher discovered at least 796 dead bodies of babies in the septic tank of a former home for unwed mothers.
Irish education minister Ruari Quinn asks primary schools to cut down on time allocated to religion and use it to improve students’ literacy and numeracy skills.
The Irish Convention on the Constitution will recommend that the anti-blasphemy law be repealed, but also seeks to replace it with a rule against “incitement to religious hatred” that secular activists warn could be worse.
