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Health

Deep dive: COVID-19 related inequalities
26 June 2020
Making basic comparisons between the numbers of COVID-19 positive tests or deaths across different geographic regions using raw figures may seem straightforward. But coming to

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Health

COVID-19 and health inequalities in Northern Ireland
26 June 2020
This article explains data published by the Department of Health as well as the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, about COVID-19 related health inequalities

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Health

Are 1 in 4 NI adults ‘now at risk of hunger and malnutrition’?
23 June 2020
This claim is unsubstantiated. The research behind the News Letter headline was conducted across the UK and the results were not broken down by region,

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Peace

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

Health

Have 1 in 4 LGBT persons attempted suicide?
6 November 2018
The claim is true in line with other surveys with LGBT respondents in the UK and Ireland. The Rainbow Project survey figure of 4% of

Law

Is there majority support for marriage equality?
7 February 2018
The claim is accurate. On 28th January 2018, IrishCentral claimed that “Seventy percent of people in Northern Ireland and the majority of its Assembly Members support marriage equality

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Health

Are 1 in 5 people living with a disability?
25 April 2016
This claim is accurate. Dr Michael Wardlow accurately presented the percentage of Northern Ireland residents who are affected by an illness or disability which affects