Are Catholics now the majority in Northern Ireland?
Census results due in the autumn will provide the answer
Gerry adams was asked in 2001 whether a higher Catholic birth rate in Northern Ireland could deliver a united Ireland. The former leader of Sinn Féin, the political party which grew out of the Irish Republican Army (ira), replied: “Outbreeding [pro-British] unionists may be an enjoyable pastime for those who have the energy, but it hardly amounts to a political strategy.” Maybe so, but the size of the province’s Catholic population is soon to be a subject of intense political interest.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Counting on it”
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