The combined population of Ireland and Northern Ireland increased by 1.5 million between 2002 and 2022, a newly published ...

And with the booming population came a boom in Belfast’s music— by 2021, this waterside city was a UNESCO City of Music. “Up until the late 1960s, everybody wanted to play Belfast, ...

The 2021 census showed that 10% of Belfast City Council's population were born outside of the British Isles (that is, the UK and Ireland). Meanwhile 7% of its population was non-white, and 7% had ...

In terms of population make-up, 13.5% (257,000) were born outside Northern Ireland, with 105,000 having come to live in the region in the last 10 years, and 66,000 having arrived between 2001 and ...

January 19, 2025 at 1:33pm GMT. Around 100 people gathered at the Albert Bridge in Belfast on Saturday as the latest murmuration of starlings in the city made an appearance.

The previous census, in 2011, showed that while self-identified Protestants still outnumbered Catholics by 48.4 percent to 45.1 percent, they were for the first time no longer an absolute majority ...