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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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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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Have the courts said NI schools are discriminatory, and ordered them to stop indoctrinating pupils into Christianity?
21 September 2022
The High Court found that the core curriculum for RE lacks objectivity and promotes Christianity, in breach of human rights However, the Court made no

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COVID-19 vaccines and microchip devices
10 December 2020
Back in June 2020, Kanye West revealed that he had contracted coronavirus in February. He expressed reservations about possible vaccines, encompassing many frequently shared claims:

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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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Are a third of CoI ministry candidates women?
30 August 2018
A quarter of CoI accepted and enrolled candidates are women. For the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, its figures of less than 4% female candidates are