Why is the Protestant Population in Decline? – On This Day in 1975
According to the paper, “Trends in the Religious Composition of the Population of the Republic of Ireland 1946-71”, between ...
How to connect Ireland and Britain after unity? Once mothballed institution may be key
Unification could sever North’s ties to Nato and Commonwealth, but Belfast Agreement provides for maintaining British–Irish ...
Irish Central10d
Support for Irish Unity low but growing in Northern Ireland, new opinion polling finds
While there is a slight increase in support for Irish unity, overall, the people of Northern Ireland do not support Irish ...
PSNI religious balance is crucial to achieving trust in the service - The Irish News view
Chief Constable Jon Boutcher was entirely correct to declare that ensuring the PSNI is fully representative of the community ...
The Independent7d
NI chief constable concerned over lack of Catholics applying to join police
Northern Ireland’s chief constable has said the number of Catholics applying to join ... into not just the nationalist community but the Protestant working class communities, ethnic minority ...
BBC24d
Everyday life in the Troubles
The unionist population felt itself to be in a secure position of dominance in Northern Ireland society. Even the most deprived working class Protestants reckoned they were superior to Catholics.
PSNI urged to move beyond ‘woke quota’ of 50-50 recruitment with Catholics reluctant to join force
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) must move beyond the “craze of woke quotas”, the DUP leader Gavin Robinson has ...
MercoPress9d
Another challenge for UK unity: latest census shows Catholics are a majority in Northern Ireland
When Northern Ireland was founded in 1921 as part of UK, two-thirds of the population was Protestant, in strong contrast to the Catholic Irish state to the south For the first time in the century ...