LONDON -- Northern Ireland achieved another important milestone in peacemaking Saturday as the territory's two major Protestant paramilitary groups announced their first acts of disarmament -- and ...

The rest of the story. Ireland is one of the few remaining countries where it’s a major news item that Catholics make up less than 90 percent of the population. According to reports last spring, the ...

An anti-Brexit sign is affixed to a pole in West Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 2019 outside the Falls Road offices of Sinn Fein, a left-wing political party pushing for a united Ireland. It is one of ...

A peace wall separating Catholic and Protestant communities is seen in Belfast, Northern Ireland, March 1, 2017. Data from the 2021 census showed 45.7% of respondents identified as Catholic or were ...

Figures for Protestant weddings are not yet available, although in 2023 the three main Protestant denominations in Northern ...

For many of us in Northern Ireland, from various backgrounds, an Irish presidential election can seem like the Eurovision ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland, and LONDON — It was a warm June night in 1991 when a phone call came that would change Martha Seaman's life forever. It was her son's fiancée, and she was crying. "That was ...

DRUMCREE, Northern Ireland, July 8 -- The most contentious Protestant march of Northern Ireland's midsummer "Marching Season" was completed in peace and an eerie quiet today, setting a hopeful tone ...

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- Police blamed Northern Ireland's major outlawed Protestant group Thursday for stoking days of riots in north Belfast. Also Thursday, Catholics in Ardoyne, a focal point ...

Northern Ireland's 2021 census has shown that for the first time in 101 years of history of the region, 45.7% of the population are Catholic while 43.5% are Protestant. Northern Ireland now has more ...

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 the ...

More people in Northern Ireland now identify as Catholic than Protestant for the first time in the history of the jurisdiction, new census figures reveal. The data has led to calls for a referendum ...