The rest of the story. Ireland is one of the few remaining countries where it’s a major news item that Catholics make up less than 90 percent of the population. According to reports last spring, the ...
The first round of the 2021 Northern Irish census results were released on Sept. 22, and it produced a shocker: Catholics now outnumber Protestants for the first time since the Northern Irish state ...
New census data confirms that the once-dominant Protestants no longer predominate — a demographic change that could open the door to reunification with the rest of Ireland. A man walks past a Catholic ...
Newly released census results may fuel calls for a referendum on uniting Ireland, experts say, but not right away. By Megan Specia and Ed O’Loughlin LONDON — For the first time, Catholics outnumber ...
BELFAST (Reuters) -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 ...
When Metairie's Bill and Winkie Bouldin began thinking about retirement -- Bill from Texaco and Winkie as a teacher -- in the early 1990s, they cast around trying to decide what to do in their golden ...
An anti-Brexit sign is affixed to a pole in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2019 outside the Falls Road offices of Sinn Fein, a left-wing political party pushing for a united Ireland. It is one of ...