According to the ONS data, the north’s net population increased by 7,467 between mid-2023 and mid-2024, representing a net growth of 0.39%. Across the north’s 11 council areas, Newry, Mourne and Down ...

A west Belfast MLA has accused anti-migrant groups of “crying foul” over supposed mass migration after new figures estimated that the population of Northern Ireland has grown by less than 0.4%. New ...

CEO of Mater Private Hospital Cork calls for deeper collaboration between healthcare providers and policymakers Sandra Daly, CEO of Mater Private Hospital Cork, delivering the keynote speech at the ...

“I like to think I want to be able to walk to my grave and remember which one I picked”, says Regius Professor Rose Anne Kenny. The principal investigator of Tilda, Ireland’s largest adult population ...

A census with a difference has been carried out on Ireland's Eye off the coast of north Dublin as BirdWatch Ireland has been attempting to count the number of seabirds nesting on the uninhabited ...

NI’s population has risen to 1.93m driven by net migration and an exponential increase in the number of older people as the number of centenarians climbs towards 300. Newly published figures from the ...

NORTHERN Ireland’s population has continued to increase, reaching 1.93 million people last year. The latest official figures showed the population increased by 7,500 people or 0.3% between mid-2023 ...

The Government has to spend an extra €2-€3 billion each year just to cover “the standstill costs” associated with an ageing population, the Department of Finance’s chief economist John McCarthy has ...

Ireland's population could grow much faster than previously expected, according to new scenarios published by the Department of Finance. In a high growth scenario there would be 7.59 million ...

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Ireland faces “very negative” economic consequences within the next 25 years if inward migration is not encouraged as the workforce approaches retirement. That is the key takeaway from a new ...

Infrastructure will be a focus of the Budget as the Government tackles issues caused by exponential population growth, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said. Mr Martin said there was a need to “sort out” ...