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Stormont has been urged to remove a “cruel clause” that “writes out” thousands of women, girls and their children in a mother and baby homes Bill. Campaigners, including survivors of the homes run by ...
Large crowds have gathered in County Donegal for the annual Orange Order parade in the seaside village of Rosssnowlagh. About ...
Catholics are less likely to believe the PSNI represents their community, a new policing Board survey has found. Details of ...
The eruption of what police described as mob-led "racist thuggery" is particularly dangerous in Northern Ireland due to its legacy of sectarian violence.
Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland workforce for the first time – study Trend of increasing share for Catholic community continued at a slower rate Expand ...
In 2001, Catholics made up just 40.3% of those in work while Protestants represented 59.7%; 20 years later in 2021, these figures were balanced at 50-50 exactly.
BELFAST — Northern Ireland was drawn up, a century ago, to create an unassailably secure British Protestant majority within its new borders. So when Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill finally gained the ...
The number of Catholic and Protestant workers in Northern Ireland is almost equal, a new report has revealed. An Equality Commission study for 2021, external showed that 43.5% of the workforce was ...
During the 1960s, Catholics in British-controlled Northern Ireland generally had the same legal rights as their Protestant counterparts did on paper; however, many Catholics argued that they faced ...
Even now, remnants of separation between Protestant and Catholic Northern Ireland linger: the barriers between neighborhoods known as peace walls; murals with images of Queen Elizabeth II or Irish ...
Now, she works for YouthAction Northern Ireland, teaching theater to children from Protestant and Catholic backgrounds at the Rainbow Factory, the same performing arts school that she said opened ...