LONDON — For the first time, Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland, census figures released on Thursday show — confirmation of a long-anticipated but still striking shift with ...

For the first time in history, more people in Northern Ireland identify as Catholic than Protestant. Data from the 2021 census information released last week indicated 45.7% of those surveyed said … ...

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 ...

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 ...

A peace wall separating Catholic and Protestant communities is seen in Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 1, 2017. Data from the 2021 census showed 45.7% of respondents identified as Catholic or ...

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 ...

BELFAST, Sept 22 (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 ...

The very purpose of Northern Ireland was to retain Protestant control over the north of the island of Ireland. With Catholics now outnumbering Protestants, the apparent raison d'être of the territory ...

Catholics outnumber Protestants in Northern Ireland for the first time since the partition of the island, census figures show. The Census 2021 figures, published on Thursday, show that 45.7% of ...

The latest census figures show that for the first time there are more people from a Catholic background in Northern Ireland than Protestant. The proportion of the resident population which is ...

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 ...

Results from the 2021 census released yesterday showed that 45.7% of Northern Ireland’s population are Catholic or from a Catholic background, compared with 43.5% from Protestant or other ...