According to the data collected last year nationwide, 45.7% of Northern Ireland’s population are Catholic or have a Catholic background. This compares to 43.4% stating they are Protestant or from a ...

Anna Russell writes about the Catholic and Protestant divisions in Northern Ireland and Lurgan College’s Shared Education Programme, part of a nationwide initiative to bring young people from ...

The proportion of the resident population, which is either Catholic or brought up as Catholic, is now 45.7%, compared to 43.48% Protestant. The previous census, in 2011, found that 45.1% of the ...

According to the paper, “Trends in the Religious Composition of the Population of the Republic of Ireland 1946-71”, between 1946 and 1971 the total Protestant population declined from 158,000 ...

Northern Ireland has more Catholics than Protestants for the first time, census results showed on Thursday, a historic shift that some see as likely to help drive support for the region to split ...

The results of the 2021 Northern Ireland census have been released and they show that 42.3% of the population identify as Catholic and 37.3% as Protestant or other Christian. The census included a ...

Belfast, Northern Ireland – Seomra ranga – “classroom”, in Ireland’s indigenous language – reads a cardboard sign tacked onto a door. A little further down the hall, a leabharlann is ...

According to the latest figures, 3.4% of Northern Ireland's population, which is 65,600 people, now belong to ethnic minority groups. This is around double the 2011 figure (32,400 people) and four ...

The previous census, in 2011, showed that while self-identified Protestants still outnumbered Catholics by 48.4 percent to 45.1 percent, they were for the first time no longer an absolute majority ...

DUBLIN (CNS)—More people in Northern Ireland now identify as Catholic than Protestant for the first time in the history of the jurisdiction, new census figures reveal. The data has led to calls ...