FILE PHOTO: Crowds cheer as King Charles III and the Queen Consort arrive for a visit to Hillsborough Castle, Co Down. Picture date: Tuesday September 13, 2022. Niall Carson/Pool via REUTERS
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 region to split from Britain and join a united Ireland.
The shift comes a century after the Northern Ireland state was established with the aim of maintaining a pro-British, Protestant "unionist" majority as a counterweight to the newly independent, predominantly Catholic, Irish state to the south.
