The Catholic population ... Person Living in England), but the so-called brain drain was a serious side-effect of the Troubles. Nonetheless, the population still grew from 1.4m in 1961 to 1.8m ...

The chaotic scenes have stirred memories of decades of Catholic-Protestant conflict, known as “The Troubles.” A 1998 peace deal ended large-scale violence but did not resolve Northern Ireland ...

Only a handful of individuals on either side were initially ... those killed in the Troubles were civilian, over 2000 in total. Of those the majority, some 1270, were Catholic.

Over two decades, Catholic dioceses ... religious communities had an average response rate of 72%. Those financial troubles have led dioceses throughout the country to sell diocesan property ...