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Television in Northern Ireland is available using, digital terrestrial (known as Freeview), digital satellite (from Sky & Freesat) and cable (from Virgin Media). Analogue terrestrial used UHF 625 lines, in common with the rest of the UK, although transmission ceased in October 2012, as part of the UK Digital Switchover .
30 September – BBC Northern Ireland launches a daily news bulletin called Today in Northern Ireland and replaces Ulster Mirror. 18 December – Television comes to the north western parts of Northern Ireland following the switching on of the Londonderry transmitter which provided the BBC Television Service to the north west. [1] 1958
The earliest recorded Jew living in Northern Ireland was a tailor by the name of Manuel Lightfoot in 1652. The first Jewish congregation in Northern Ireland, Belfast Hebrew Congregation, was founded in 1870. In 2006, there were an estimated 300 Jewish people living in Northern Ireland. [20]
The region had a significant Protestant majority when Northern Ireland was created in 1921. More Catholics than Protestants in NI for first time since partition Skip to main content
In 1728, the Catholics outnumbered Protestants five-to-one. A few Catholics managed to hold their estates with the collaboration of friendly Protestants; the remainder gradually sank to the level of cottiers and day-labourers, reduced to a standard of living far below what they had been used to. Many Catholics chose to emigrate in the hopes of ...
The Church of Ireland's national Cathedral and Collegiate Church of Saint Patrick, Dublin. Protestantism is a Christian minority on the island of Ireland.In the 2011 census of Northern Ireland, 48% (883,768) described themselves as Protestant, which was a decline of approximately 5% from the 2001 census.
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 ...
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 2001 census was the first to show that the Protestant and other (non-Catholic) Christian share of the population had dropped below 50%, but 53.1% still identified ...