This is a first in Northern Ireland, and it could encourage supporters of reunification with the Republic of Ireland. Catholics are the majority in Northern Ireland, according to the results of a census published Thursday, September 22. Now 42.3% of Northern Ireland’s population identify as Catholic, compared to 37.3% as Protestant or other Christian religions, according to census results released by the Statistics and Research Agency of Ireland. of the North (Nisra).
At the last census in 2011, 48% of the population identified as Protestant and 45% as Catholic or other Christian religions. In 2001, 53% of the inhabitants said they were Protestant, 44% Catholic.
The results of the census could thus put back on the table a reunification of Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland. As a reminder, Northern Ireland was born 101 years ago with a geographical division ensuring a Protestant majority there and thus power to the unionists, supporters of the connection with the United Kingdom. In the rest of the island, now the Republic of Ireland, Catholics are the majority.
