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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is now a society of three minorities: Catholics, Protestants and “others.” Queen Elizabeth II was Britain's lead ambassador. Catholics aren’t necessarily nationalists, and ...

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 ...

For the first time in Northern Ireland’s history, Catholics outnumber Protestants, according to the latest census figures. The number of people designating as Catholic has increased 0.6% to 45.1 ...