Cork Humanists - Come and Join In!

Fortyniner

The Cork Humanists (www.corkhumanists.com) established themselves last month, and here's a note on their second meeting (all welcome):

Next Meeting / Secular Education Event
On Sunday of 6th of November we will be holding our second meeting in the Quay Co-op at 12 noon. The meeting willl centre on the issue of secular education and guest speakers will include Jane Donnelly, education policy officer for Atheist Ireland and Colm Breen, who is one of our own members, a local resource teacher and will be talking about the establishment of a non-denominational primary school in cork. The meeting will take place in the newly refurbished meeting room owned and run by the Quay Co-op, which is located on Cove St. Cork just behind the Quay Co-op's main premises . For those of you who are driving there is parking located just across the bridge here. On the day we will be having some teas and coffees before we begin the meeting so feel free to bring along some home baking.

Amongst the subjects that will be addressed by Jane and Colm, will be the constitutional situation in relation to secular education, the current state of play with Educate Together Schools, the relationship between VEC Schools and the Catholic church and how people can get involved in secular education projects. The issue of patronage within the schools system will also be discussed. A link to the facebook event can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=238252092895327

As we are still in the process of setting up we would encourage supporters of the Cork Humanists to attend the meeting as we will also facilitate a short discussion amongst our members on issues pertaining to the Cork Humanists itself; what our goals are and what events people would like to see run.


Inaugural Meeting on Youtube
Loads of you have emailed in saying how disappointed you were at missing the inaugural meeting, so thanks to our members Tom Kennedy and Sean O'Connell we've put it up on youtube for you. The videos are on our website

Turtwig

Typical! Cork People trying to separate themselves from the rest of the people on this island.:pac:

Dudess

A couple of my pals are going - might join 'em.