ATHEIST IRELAND (AI) founder and chairman, Michael Nugent, struck a blow for the Enlightenment by refusing an official invite to the state ceremony celebrating the 1916 Rising. In a most gracious rejection of the invite, Nugent denounced the Rising as “an undemocratic group killing innocent people” and criticised the holding of the commemoration on the… Read more »
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