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Another challenge for UK unity: latest census shows Catholics are a majority in Northern Ireland
For the first time in the century of its existence, Northern Ireland has more residents who identify as Catholic than those calling themselves Protestants, a census has shown, according to results published on Thursday. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThat's been coming for years. Young protestants don't stay, they go to great britain for a life...
Sep 23rd, 2022 - 06:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The data suggests a society evolving away from the tribal, bi-polar, left foot right foot politics of the past, where someone’s politics were always defined by their religion.
Sep 25th, 2022 - 11:55 am - Link - Report abuse 045.7% of respondents identified as Catholic, however only 29% saw themselves as Irish?
In the last election the combined Nationalist share of the vote (first preference) was 39.6%, compare this to 1998, the time of the Belfast (Good Friday) agreement, where the combined Nationalist share of the vote was 39.6%.
Then if we look at main languages spoken today:
All usual residents English Polish Lithuanian Irish Romanian
1,836,616 1,751,510 20,134 8,978 5,969 5,627
More Catholics speaking Polish in NI than Erse.
The changing demographic does not seem to equate to any increase in support for Republicanism.
Increasingly NI is ‘doing its own thing’.
Try again.
Sep 25th, 2022 - 12:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Then if we look at main languages spoken today:
All usual residents English Polish Lithuanian Irish Romanian
1,836,626 1,751,510 20,134 8,978 5,969 5,627
More Catholics speaking Polish in NI than Erse.
All usual residents - 1,836,626
Sep 25th, 2022 - 12:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0English - 1,751,510
Polish - 20,134
Lithuanian - 8,978
Irish - 5,969
Romanian - 5,627
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