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In the Belfast City Council and Derry and Strabane District Council areas, the figures at ward level vary from 99% Protestant to 92% Catholic. Following the reform of local government in Northern Ireland the twenty-six districts created in 1973 were replaced with eleven "super districts". The first election using these districts took place on ...
The Belfast Metropolitan Area dominates in population terms, with over a third of the inhabitants of Northern Ireland. When Northern Ireland was created, it had a Protestant majority of approximately two-to-one, [2] [3] [4] unlike the Republic of Ireland, where Catholics were in the majority. [5]
The Belfast Islamic Centre states that roughly half of the Muslim population lives in Belfast alone. [17] The Muslims in Northern Ireland come from over 40 countries of origin, from Western Europe all the way through to the Far East. [18] This situation is reflected in comparably complex institutional arrangements. [19]
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 ...
A 5.5-metre-high (18-foot) peace line along Springmartin Road in Belfast, with a fortified police station at one end The peace line along Cupar Way in Belfast, seen from the predominantly Protestant side The peace line at Bombay Street/Cupar Way in Belfast, seen from the predominantly Catholic side Gates in a peace line in West Belfast
The Protestant community is on average older than the Catholic community. ... “One point of interest would be the population of Belfast has increased from the 2001 census to the 2021 census ...
Despite this, Protestantism since 2002 has been relegated to the third largest group recorded on the census, having been overtaken by those who choose "No Religion". [14] [16] Overall Protestants accounted for 4% of the total Irish population in 2006 and 2011. [14] In the 2016 census Protestantism accounted for 4.2% of the population. [17]
The hunger strikes resonated among many nationalists; over 100,000 people [167] attended Sands's funeral mass in West Belfast and thousands attended those of the other hunger strikers. From an Irish republican perspective, the significance of these events was to demonstrate potential for a political and electoral strategy.