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Demographics of NI: What religions are followed by the people living here?
26 September 2025
FactCheckNI has been researching and publishing a short series of articles exploring the demographics of Northern Ireland, examining changes in population age, religion and place
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Explainer: Where were the people who live here born?
4 September 2025
FactCheckNI is planning a short series of articles looking at the demographics of Northern Ireland, examining changes in population age, religion and place of birth.
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Housing in NI: Why “vacant domestic properties” are different than “houses without usual residents” and neither actually means just “empty homes”, plus other statistical pitfalls
11 April 2025
In a 24 February debate in the Assembly on a new deal for private renters, People Before Profit MLA Gerry Carroll said: “According to Land
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Does Northern Ireland have a majority Catholic population?
10 November 2023
The National Catholic Reporter published an article with the headline: “Northern Ireland has majority Catholic population for first time, UK census shows.” Is this right?
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Do more than 700,000 born in Northern Ireland have an Irish passport?
5 March 2020
831,779 Irish passport applications (2010-19) represents 44.7% of the Northern Ireland-born population living in the UK at the time of the 2011 Censuses. On the
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Does no one in Mid Ulster speak Irish?
30 March 2019
This claim is inaccurate. 440 people living in the local government district spoke Irish as their first language, according to the 2011 Census. 22,986 people
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Communal counting: The Northern Ireland census
6 March 2019
In Northern Ireland, much data are reduced to communal categories of “Protestant” and “Catholic”, for the purposes of monitoring the delivery of public services and
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TheJournal.ie: Are there really more Polish speakers than Irish speakers in Northern Ireland?
13 February 2017
This claim is inaccurate. While the 2011 Census data show more people in Northern Ireland speaking Polish than Irish as their main language, based on
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