He added that it “looks like all the houses that were targeted were Catholic families” but that the street and area were mixed. “This is a new development; families are very settled here.

As we leave Ireland and the Irish, we are left pondering the perennial “Irish question”: Was Patrick a Protestant or a Roman Catholic? To those who ask that question there is no short answer.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Lee Young, 8, and Cein Quinn, 7, live barely 200 yards apart, but they have never met, and maybe never will. Lee is Protestant, Cein a Catholic — and their ...

Lee Young, 8, and Cein Quinn, 7, live barely 200 yards apart, but they have never met, and maybe never will. Lee is Protestant, Cein a Catholic - and their communities in Belfast's west inner city ...

In Belfast, the walls between Catholics and Protestants still stand By Cécile Ducourtieux (Belfast (Northern Ireland) special correspondent) Published on April 10, 2023, at 5:01 am (Paris ...

In 2013, the Northern Ireland executive announced a plan to remove all peace walls by 2023. But a decade on they are still standing. So, the question now is, how long will they remain?

Particularly insidious were Baker’s comments that Breadon’s map was an “all-out assault on Catholic life in Boston” led by “a Protestant from Fermanagh.” ... 45-feet-high “peace walls” that divided ...

A man walks past a Marian mural in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Feb. 20, 2013. Data from the 2021 census showed 45.7% of respondents identified as Catholic or were brought up Catholic, compared with ...

While those describing themselves as Catholic or from a Catholic background now outnumber those from Protestant backgrounds, between 2011 and 2021, their share of the population only grew from 45. ...

BELFAST (Reuters) -Northern Ireland has more Catholics than Protestants for the first time, census results showed on Thursday, a historic shift that some see as likely to help drive support for ...