The main driver of population growth was people moving to Scotland from other parts of the UK and abroad. The Manx Chamber of Commerce says upskilling workers should be pushed ahead of job creation ...

Northern Ireland's power-sharing government is in breach of a nearly 20-year-old statutory obligation to develop an ...

Northern Ireland's population is projected to peak at 1.95m in 2033 before starting to decline, a report by the official statistics agency suggests. The projection from the NI Statistics and ...

Northern Ireland is the "least diverse" part of the UK, according to research published by the Northern Ireland Assembly. The ...

Native oysters have made a return to Carrickfergus as part of efforts to restore Belfast Lough’s small but endangered ...

It was a contested entity from the moment of its inception, ignored by the Catholic community which comprised one third of the population. Northern Ireland had come into existence, but it needed ...

(In Northern Ireland almost 10 per cent gave no information on religion in the 1971 census). The emigration rate among the Protestant population as a whole was significantly lower than among ...

A groundbreaking study has developed the first comprehensive assessment of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) among Northern Ireland's adult population. ACEs are defined as traumatic or ...

Concerns have been expressed following increased reports of rat sightings in a residential area of north Down.