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Sam Boal

There are now 4,757,976 people in Ireland

The population has grown 169,724 since the last census in 2011.

THE POPULATION OF Ireland has grown to 4,757,976, the preliminary data from Census 2016 shows.

The population has grown by 169,724, or 3.7%, since the last census in 2011.

The Central Statistics Office released the figures today at Government Buildings, which show a net migration of -28,558 and a natural increase of 198,282.

The county with the largest outward migration, or number of people leaving the county, was Donegal. A balance of 6,731 people left the county in the five years since 2011.

Dublin had the highest inward migration, with 7,981 coming to the capital. The area with the largest increase in population in the country was the Fingal area of Dublin. Cork also had a large increase in population.

Seven of the ten largest increases came in Dublin electoral areas, with the other three being Navan, Maynooth and Portlaoise – all Dublin commuter towns.

The figures also show that the population per TD has risen to 30,144, above the constitutional limit of 30,000.

Deirdre Cullen of the CSO said that this would mean that there would now have to be at least one more TD and that the CSO would hand a file to the Electoral Commission tomorrow.

Housing

The figures also show that there are now 18,981 more occupied dwellings in the country, with 29.5% of homes unoccupied in Leitrim, and Kildare having just 6.3%.

In total, 259,562 dwellings are unoccupied across Ireland, having fallen by 29,889 (13.8%).

The vacancy rate has fallen to 12.8%.

CSO statistician Brendan Murphy thanked census enumerators and the public for allowing the statistics be ready within 12 weeks of the census.

The full census will be published by next March.

The Census 2016 data can be seen here.

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    Mute Dessie Curley
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:05 AM

    I’m just about to jump on a plane at Heathrow so add 1 to that in an hour

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    Mute Paul Mc
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:09 AM

    Compared to prefamine times that’s not an awful lot really. It would make you wonder what the population of Ireland would be like now if so many people did not starve to death or have to emigrate in the 19th century.

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    Mute Markonline
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:13 AM

    There would be more TD’s in the Dail than you could shake a stick at.

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    Mute brian magee
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:16 AM

    Paul add 1.8 million from NI before you compare the pre-famine which give 6.8M which is still a good bit of the 8.5M, we are one if the few countries whose population has decreased since the 1800′s.

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    Mute Jamie McCormack
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:20 AM

    *pre-genocide

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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:20 AM

    8.3 million people live in London – food for thought

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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:20 AM

    4.7 million people..Jesus, have we no self control?

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    Mute For Connolly
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:39 AM

    “4.7 million people..Jesus, have we no self control?”

    Wait till all the babies conceived after the Ireland-Italy game arrive……..

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    Mute brian magee
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:41 AM

    VAL, 4.7 million Irish people where in Thomond Park when Munster best the All blacks, (ask anyone and they were there) there is more food for thought.

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    Mute Tony Skillington
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:42 AM

    True…lot of Robbie’s and Shane’s coming along.

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    Mute Pádraig Ó Raghaill
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:49 AM

    More please diversity is the fruit of prosperity

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    Mute David Clarke
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:57 AM

    Best of luck dessie keep away fro the Irish you’ll only do what you do here get out and about

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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:59 AM

    Paul, if you consider , one in eight people living in Ireland hail from abroad, you could equally wonder what the population would be if these numbers were not reflected in the current census
    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/almost-one-in-eight-living-in-ireland-hail-from-abroad-1.2471339

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    Mute Meanderingsz
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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:11 PM

    Honeybee, ireland’s population is so small that if the irish living in the uk returned home we would see a 7.5% increase in population.
    1 in 8 is about 500000 foreign nationals of which 80% are from Europe leaving the remaining 100000 from outside the EU. In terms of ethnic diversity, ireland remains a relative monoculture.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:19 PM

    I was not commenting on diversity, I was like Paul wondering about the population figures and events such as famine, emigration, immigration and what the population would actually be now if it were not impacted by such events, would our population actually have declined without immigration? It is only when the census figures are released , we think about the findings.

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    Mute Bobby Phelan
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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:00 PM

    I thought half a million emigrated or 1/4. I thought it would be bigger

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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:16 PM

    Bobby, it was more than you suggest Between 1845 and 1855, 1.5 million people left for good. In 1845, emigration was at the pre-famine rate of 50,000 per year. In 1846 100,000 left. It peaked in 1847, when 250,000 left.

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    Mute Seán Domhnall O'Sullivan
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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:20 PM

    I was reading some 46-8% of under 30s in our population left. Maybe some returned however these figures as we know are often massaged to give an impression of recovery, massage the out of work figures.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 5:44 PM

    Irelands population with no famine would be about 25 million, assuming Dublin has 25%, Belfast 7.5%, Cork 5% then the cities’ population are 6.25, 1.9 and 1.25 million respectively. Athlone would be 0.8 mill aprrox. We would have more industry, a bigger army and a better football team.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 5:48 PM

    @PaulMc

    Comparing today’s Ireland with pre-famine Ireland is wrong and idiotic. Firstly look what happened to 8 million people when presented with any sort of problem with food distribution. A snag in any major population centre in the west would result in chaos.

    Secondly you had 8 million people living in slums and with large numbers under one roof. There was not the same transport, medical, educational or health and sewage and waste infrastructures, which for 8 million people on such a small island today would mean a massively urbanised and horrible island.

    IBEC wants 10 million people on this island so that the business class can get stay very very rich, continuing to use mass cheap imported labour, and reaping profits from a never-ending supply of obedient workers. If people cheer on population increase due to mass-immigration especially, you deserve everything you get, and it won’t be good.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 7:10 PM

    If Irelands pre famine population had increased at the same rate as England’s, we d have a population of approximately 30 million today. If we had the same population density as England, we d have a population of approximately 34 million. And these figures are achievable and manageable with sensibly planned cities and towns. Has England been destroyed by such populations. Or what about the benelux countries

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    Jul 14th 2016, 7:16 PM

    “8 million people. ….would mean a massively urbanised and horrible island “. Why so? England? Benelux? Germany? Portugal? Spain? Italy? Etc etc etc. Are they massively urbanised and horrible?

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    Jul 14th 2016, 9:35 PM

    Yes Graeme Gregg (hmm, English name, you haven’t fled over-populated UK by any chance). These countries are all over-populated, London is a hole as are many of the other British cities. You know how many Brits were fleeing Britain each year for a spot in Spain etc that was less congested.

    Humans are not designed to live in dense populations, it is psychologically unhealthy for them, it is also unhealthy for wildlife to have their habitats shrunk and encroached upon by humans. Also earth is full, there is only so much resources available on the planet which sustains a finite number of people, we have reached the limit. Yet we are also expected to take Africa’s, India’s etc overspill.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 9:45 PM

    So you think I’m an idiot Steven. I have feelings you know.

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    Mute Patrick Norton
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:29 PM

    We prob would of had a population of around 20-30 million. Sure Britain’s population was around 16 million in the 1800s. Image what Ireland would be like today, towns cities all different, leitrim would still be empty ha.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:07 AM

    How many illegals or homeless who didn’t registar are not on that list???????????

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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:13 AM

    Any chance of an article without bringing up homeless?

    FYI: the homeless were counted.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:14 AM

    One question mark would suffice.

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    Mute Michael Kenny
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:40 AM

    I heard on.the radio from the head of the census group that homeless people sign their census form in all homeless shelters.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 5:44 PM

    Not everyone has access to homeless shelters. !!!!

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    Jul 15th 2016, 12:58 AM

    Well they said everybody will be accounted for including the homeless people.

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    Mute Markonline
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:09 AM

    Perhaps the current sitting TD’s could find it in their hearts to share the imaginary workload associated with this increase in population rather than the costs involved with redrawing constituencies, TD salary, secretary, expenses…

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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:18 AM

    We’re outside constitutional limits now, so there will either have to be more TDs or a referendum.

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    Mute Markonline
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:26 AM

    Lets change the rules so, have it as an add on in the abortion referendum. The wants and needs of 50,000 people are the same as 30,000…..better healthcare, better education, jobs, better standard of living.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:28 AM

    I find it bizarre that we specify a ratio.

    Surely the number of TDs required to be ministers, opposition spokespeople and sit on committees is a fairly constant number.

    At another extreme, if the country’s population were ever to plummet, we could have not enough TDs to do all the jobs.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:48 AM

    But then how would the sitting government adjust the areas to suite their needs ?

    That’s almost as ridicules as saying the tshock should not be able to elect 20 senators….

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    Mute Chris Mcdonnell
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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:05 PM

    Mark online they do share their imaginary work load. Most of them have employed family members into €50,000 a year jobs helping with their imaginary workload

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    Mute Michéal Maher
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:33 AM

    The hundreds of thousands of Irish emigrants are quiet simply being replaced by immigrants and refugees from other countries what the census gives is the balance.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:40 AM

    Yes MM – no harm to give the country a bit of shake up in terms of ethnicities. Might mean that everyone doesn’t keep voting for FF and FG.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:46 AM

    Hope all those Irish emigrants are welcome in their new country and don’t meet and small minded bigots.

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    Mute Michéal Maher
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    Jul 14th 2016, 3:46 PM

    No need to hope Brian Magee the emigrating Irish are as welcome elsewhere as the newcomers are here but maybe not quiet entitled to as much.

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    Mute Paudi Onail
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    Jul 14th 2016, 7:13 PM

    emigrants? even the ones still stuck here are being replaced by immigrants, non-eu ones at that. its not skills, its diversity and PC now. give your own people a job and leave your ideals in the bin.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 10:56 PM

    Why do people red thumb the truth

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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:19 AM

    Republic of Ireland surely – all the pre famine figures were the whole country so for comparisons sake some accuracy from the Journal would help:

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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:22 AM

    Troll headline.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:42 AM

    The Republic of Ireland is the name of our football team. Éire is the official name, or Ireland in the English language.

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    Mute Ned Shaw
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:48 AM

    Ireland is the name of our geographical landmass. The Republic of Ireland is the name of the country / state.

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    Mute Barry Gormley
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:59 AM

    The name of both the Island and the country is Ireland.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:15 PM

    Ned the name Republic of Ireland was made up by FIFA in 1953 and is not the name of our country

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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:17 PM

    The island is called Ireland as that’s the geographical landmass. The definition of a Country is a nation with its own government as such the island is split into two separate political Countries – Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:19 PM

    Barry is correct, the name of the state and the name of the Island – Due to a territorial claim to the north. This is why the UK did not recognise the ‘Official’ name for ireland and instead used Eire or ROI. Maybe they recognise it today since ireland withdrew its territorial claim.
    It can be confusing since ‘Ireland’ technically is a term that equally belongs to Northern Ireland, since it also shares the island.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:20 PM

    FIFA named our country!? See your vet, soon.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:23 PM

    This country was declared a republic in 1949, named the Republic of Ireland.

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    Mute Barry Gormley
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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:39 PM

    Yes it was declared a republic. But it was named Ireland. Look it up.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:44 PM

    Republic of Ireland Act says the description of the country is the Republic of Ireland. Actual country is called Ireland https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland_Act_1948 Apologies for the wiki link, but its as accurate as any

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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:48 PM

    You do – and you’ll see that the Republic of Ireland’s Act, passed in 1949, provided that the Republic of Ireland is the legal description of the state.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:55 PM

    I have, the republic of Ireland act granted the permission to refer to the country as the republic of Ireland, enacted to appease the British, who didn’t like referring to it’s official name, which was and still is Ireland. As written in the constitution.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:02 PM

    We passed the Act ‘to appease the British’?! If you say so. But the Act did two things – it made the country a republic, and it changed it’s name. Get over it!

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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:38 PM

    No Ned the name of our country is Ireland or Éire, that’s in our constitution since 1937, a 1948 act says a description of the country shall be Republic of Ireland” which is different than the name.
    It was not until 1953 when FIFA started calling Ireland the Republic of Ireland. In other sports it’s just Ireland

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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:43 PM

    Ned , there’s also a huge debate as to weather or not Northern Ireland is actually a country.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:45 PM

    FIFA – absolute rubbish!? The Republic of Ireland Act was passed in 1949.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:47 PM

    Ger, you need to do your homework.
    The act did not change the official name of the country. It merely provided a description for the state.

    An act can’t triumph the constitution.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:48 PM

    You may also want to look up the Ireland Act 1949 , bought in by the British

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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:51 PM

    Did FIFA pass it?!!

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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:58 PM

    An act can’t triumph the constitution – is also erroneous. It can if it contains a constitutional amendment. Please get your facts right before posting – and accept that FIFA had no roll in the renaming of my country, after being made a republic.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:58 PM

    role*

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    Jul 14th 2016, 2:03 PM

    Ger you are talking rubbish.
    The 1948 act is an Irish act , which describes the country but doesn’t change the constitutional name as an Act can’t change the constitution.

    The 1949 act is a British act that was passed in the UK. You are getting the two Confused

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    Jul 14th 2016, 2:05 PM

    Ger look up the act , it only changes a description not the name as there was no constitutional amendment

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    Jul 14th 2016, 2:07 PM

    Ger you do realise that there needs to be a referendum to have a constitution amendment

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    Jul 14th 2016, 2:24 PM

    I’m sorry but you are wrong. It didn’t change the name of the country, it granted the right for the country to ALSO be refferd to as the republic of Ireland, but the official name is Ireland. Get over it.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 2:24 PM

    I think it is you who is confused, asserting that FIFA had a role in renaming my country!! The need for a referendum is well known, by me – your statement would have been correct if you had included the requirement. It is noteworthy that your third last post stated that an Act can’t change the constitution – then, in your last post, you realised that it can!!!

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    Jul 14th 2016, 2:35 PM

    BG – I said that the legal description of this country is the Republic of Ireland, and it is. If you dispute this, seek advice elsewhere and note that Dev wasn’t in the game of appeasing Britain.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 2:43 PM

    That’s some back tracking that you are doing, you clearly stated that the name of the country is The Republic of Ireland, now you are saying you the description is the Republic of Ireland.

    I stand by what I said the act can’t change the constitution, there was no referendum.

    FIFA changed the name in 53 from Ireland to the Republic of Ireland. Look it up.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 2:49 PM

    An Act can change the constitution, with a referendum. The activities of a sports organisation are as irrelevant as a music one’s – and the country is referred to as both….●/

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    Jul 14th 2016, 3:11 PM

    Ger. Have a look at your passport. You won’t find the words ‘Republic of’ on it anywhere. That’s because the official name of the country, as recognised by the UN and the EU, is Ireland.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 3:31 PM

    Ger, you said multiple times in the comments above that the 1949 act changed the name of the country. It didn’t.

    The distinction between a description and a name has sometimes caused confusion. The Taoiseach, John A. Costello, who introduced the Republic of Ireland Bill in the Oireachtas, explained the difference in the following way: “If I say that my name is Costello and that my description is that of senior counsel, I think that will be clear to anybody who wants to know. If the Senator will look at Article 4 of the Constitution she will find that the name of the State is Éire. Section 2 of this Bill declares that “this State shall be described as the Republic of Ireland.” Its name in Irish is Éire and in the English language Ireland. Its description in the English language is “the Republic of Ireland.”.

    Clear to anybody Ger. Anybody.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:30 PM

    Discussion closed

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    Mute Lukey
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:24 AM

    There were a total of 544,357 non-Irish nationals living in Ireland in April 2011, representing 199 different nations. I’d imagine there’s a lot more than that now

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    Mute brian magee
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:45 AM

    If there here for 5 years they’ve probably it nationalised and will show as Irish.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 7:08 PM

    i wonder do the illegals fill in such forms that they”d fear of giving their location away?
    I also wonder how many even fill it in, illegal or not. How many think its just for Irish people to fill out?

    I’d say there’s thousands missing off that census.

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    Mute TheBrain FromDublin
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:23 AM

    By my calculations that means, with the national debt currently at €184,885,183 and rising, and a population of 4,757,976, we each have :€38.958 around our necks ………nice :)

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    Mute paulod11
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:09 AM

    In that case there probably is in fact about 5.2 million people in Ireland when you take into consideration the amount of people that don’t even bother filling out their census

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    Mute Paudi Onail
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    Jul 14th 2016, 7:15 PM

    oh indeed. you wont see them dragged before the courts though for such a criminal offence. you or i be chased to the edge of the cliff. saps.

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    Mute Chris Mansfield
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:29 AM

    169,724 extra people.

    18,981 extra houses.

    We had a few to fill, but those figures are the core of our current problems.

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    Mute brian magee
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:44 AM

    300,000 empty houses

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    Mute Chris Mansfield
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:55 AM

    Take a look at Map 5 here though

    http://cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-cpr/censusofpopulation2016-preliminaryresults/housing/

    Very few around Dublin and Cork where the biggest population increases have been

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    Mute brian magee
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:05 PM

    So move the long term unemployed out if Dublin as they have no reason to be there ? That would free up houses

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    Mute Ger Comings
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:05 AM

    Far too many humans…

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    Mute Chlorines72
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:17 AM

    How many goyim would you like Ger – 500,000?

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    Mute Foghorn Leghorn
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:19 AM

    Correct for a change Goings, over population is on the horizon. A problem for tomorrow to deal with

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    Mute Dave Murray
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:21 AM

    You know what to do so, Ger.

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    Mute brian boru
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:44 AM

    For once we agree Ger !

    One child rule should be invoked and as we are a Roman Catholic country that means a lot of abstinence folks!

    Any one wanting a big family is just being greedy in my opinion far too many humans on the planet.

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    Mute John Clark
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:59 AM

    Tell that to the muslim community, they apparently have a birth rate of 8 to 1 WIFE!

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    Mute John Clark
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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:28 PM

    Professor from UCC commenting on Newstalk saying there is a change from last census. More people leaving Ireland than immigration.

    They put this down to less foreign people coming in due to lack of jobs……….

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:58 PM

    With consumerism on their minds?

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    Mute John Clark
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    Jul 14th 2016, 2:31 PM

    You can call me a blatant r@cist if you so wish, but I was wondering why their was so many Immigrants bogus asylum seekers ) all around my area the last few months. Especially with the rents so high.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ5MlHg5y2s&feature=share

    They kept this very very quiet.

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    Mute john kelly
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    Jul 14th 2016, 4:22 PM

    Maybe Homelands might be back on?

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    Mute John Ryan
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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:05 PM

    The population has risen by over half a million since 2006. This is a rise of over 12.2 % in that period which is very high and has taken an inevitable toll on health, housing etc ( not helped by Govt ineptitude)

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:04 PM

    When a population hits a certain number then the entrance of new diseases can get a foothold and with global warming and frequent travel, the incident of a new disease might be on the horizon as was seen with HIV, Zika and MERS so far? Zika is not new but its spread is?

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    Mute Paudi Onail
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    Jul 14th 2016, 7:09 PM

    yep, and I wouldnt rely on a census for exact figures. Like bringing the horse to water and not able to make them drink it.

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    Mute the asian nightmare
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:10 AM

    No there isn’t, Tony next door just went to Benidorm for 6 nights.

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    Mute Eamon Mac Gowan
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    Jul 14th 2016, 3:04 PM

    Wait until Britain tightens up their immigration controls they’ll all come flooding here, we’ll eventually be a minority in our own country.
    Thank you, all you PC dimwits.

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    Mute Paudi Onail
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    Jul 14th 2016, 7:11 PM

    don’t give them any ideas. i doubt kenny has any idea what the outcome of it is either theyre that thick in there. they see it as great for the country, more power for their buddies in business, competition they see it as. Driving people to the edge is what it is.

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    Mute Ciaran O'Mara
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:34 AM

    The population of the Republic of Ireland is 100,000 more than the CSO has estimated it might be. They were guessing on 4.65, not 4.76.
    There is something going seriously wrong with the collection and estimation of data in the CSO.
    It looks like we have had net inward migration in the last year at least. Returning emigrants and more immigrants?

    There will be more pressure for new schools and health care with the extra population especially in Dublin.

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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:09 AM

    In the Republic. ..ireland is over 6 mil.

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    Mute Qwerty
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:46 AM

    I think that all countries should aim to keep things in equilibrium rather than it all being about constant growth and expansion. Like aiming to keep the population at a stable number and keeping the economy running statically instead of massive booms and busts.

    In the UK, the main argument for keeping the flood gates open to immigrants is to keep the NHS functioning because people are living longer. But those immigrants and their children will live even longer most likely. Then they’ll need more immigrants to keep it all afloat, and so on and so on. It’s one big pyramid scheme of human labour and the ones at the end will suffer. In England (which is already over-populated) the solution to housing problems is “build more houses”.

    Earth is eventually going to be one big conurbation with no countryside!

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    Mute Donal McCarthy
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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:54 PM

    You’re an anarchist who think states should have more interference in people’s lives?

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    Mute Silvio Dante
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:21 AM

    Cannot wait for Pokemon go then you’ll know what the real population is :)

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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:39 AM

    A bit of light hearted news from the Journal and immediately the comments are full of National Debt, homeless, housing, overpopulation, tax and immigrant comments.

    Lighten up lads. It’s almost the weekend

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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:26 PM

    The “vacant homes” are obviously holiday homes. That’s why there’s so many in Leitrim and so few in Kildare. Don’t you socialists be getting ideas, that’s private property.

    But i bet at least some were occupied homes where the people didn’t answer the door out of fear it was the TV license inspector.

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    Mute tax slave
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:17 AM

    And how many are working in the private sector . To keep this nation afloat

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    Mute Michael Kenny
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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:21 PM

    125 thousand British expats living here. You expect more to come soon!

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    Mute Fred Johnson
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    Jul 14th 2016, 4:09 PM

    Should we start calling them immigrants instead of expats, as we would for any other nation?

    My favorite term would be economic refugees :-) Fleeing incompetence and lies from the likes of Johnson, Gove and Farage

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    Mute Get Lost Eircodes
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:46 AM

    Any religious breakdown?

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    Mute Odhran MacMurchadha
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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:12 PM

    4 million Catholics.
    757,900 other religions.
    And 76 angry atheists.

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:59 PM

    Yes, the priest who was caught with his trousers down, that caused a mental breakdown ;)

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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:18 PM

    76 angry atheists.
    The majority of whom regularly comment here.

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    Mute JustMade Ireland
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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:54 PM

    They should do one what if the Irish did not leave, our governments have been truly been great, bring a few big corporations over they make a few jobs here, take all the money back out of the country, invest else were then all the remaining Irish looking for jobs emigrate to, making these countries better while are Ireland stays in limbo.

    I love my Ireland and hate that I could not make a life there, all my siblings including cousins friends have all emigrate, we are all doing great things in different parts of the world , making other nations great pity we could do the same back home. I am just one family all most 30 of us have emigrate and how many other Irish could tell the same.

    When you see the drive other countries do to make growth, Ireland has the same potential if not more.

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    Mute alan
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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:23 PM

    No such thing as coils and condoms back then. They must have been falling over each other in them times

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:57 PM

    Workhouses and syphilis helped then, in a bad way as did famines and immigration?
    The Irish Famine of 1740–1741 (many say 1739 – 41) ” was estimated to have killed at least 38% of the 1740 population of 2.4 million people”.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Famine_(1740%E2%80%9341)
    “The Great Famine (Irish: an Gorta Mór… or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852″ “During the famine, approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland” that depends on who you talk to as the population was cut in half?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)

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    Mute Aging Lothario
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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:00 PM

    Seriously we need another TD, are they for real, if anything we need less. Increase the ratio from one TD to 60,000 people and we’ll have a much better system of government, rather than the gombeen form of politics that we currently have.

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    Mute clad
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    Jul 14th 2016, 11:34 AM

    An increase is to be welcomed: one of our greatest achievements to date is the increase in life expectancy, which filters through here.

    Let’s have a look at the dependency ratio though, and how we are going to accommodate our bigger, older population.

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    Mute Ger Byrne
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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:01 PM

    Our house did not get a form, as I assume many others didn’t, so figures are a farce.

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    Mute Paudi Onail
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    Jul 14th 2016, 7:18 PM

    its ok, they’ll just waste tax payers money now for the next 4 years chasing the others down, or eh… pretending to.
    over the years I’ve lived with foreign nationals, students, they don’t like filling them in as they don’t want their flat mates knowing their business. id say a large amount of missing forms, unfilled etc comes from that angle.

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    Mute Colm Carthy
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    Jul 14th 2016, 5:14 PM

    What a headline!!! Ireland has 32 counties yet our ‘Media’ calls the 26 counties ‘Ireland’. There are 6 other counties and the total population for IRELAND is closer to 6.6million. When Donegal play Tyrone and Cavan play Derry over the next couple of weeks (in the GAA Footbal Championships) they will not be playing foreigners!

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    Jul 14th 2016, 2:04 PM

    At the time of the famine the island of Ireland had a population of 8 million and Britain had a population of 12 million. We were two thirds their size but we also had a higher birthrate which continues to this very day. WIthout the famine and with very low emigration, we would likely have perhaps 50% more people than the UK does today – our population would be somewhere between 70 and 90 million. Shows you the impact of that event on this country.

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    Mute Ciaran O'Mara
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    Jul 14th 2016, 4:15 PM

    We should have 70 to 90 million people in Ireland today? Should have a population more than 50% higher than the UK? What are you taking?
    I’d like to try it too.

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    Mute Kevin Slater
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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:37 PM

    Is that the island or the republic?

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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:20 PM

    I always thought it was around 6mill

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:49 PM

    Not yet?

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    Mute Tír Eoghain Gael
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    Jul 15th 2016, 8:15 AM

    The journal thinks Ireland has only 26 counties.

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    Mute ed w
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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:02 PM

    I think when the Romans were in Britain uk an ireland ha a million people . I think that’s plenty. :-)

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    Mute Rochelle
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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:31 PM

    259,562 vacant homes is a shocking statistic. Goes to show that availability isn’t the problem, more that people aren’t willing to live outside of their desired location.

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    Mute Fred Johnson
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    Jul 14th 2016, 2:05 PM

    Grand Rochelle i assume you are volunteering to go live in someones “vacant” holiday home by the lake in leitrim? See for those of us with a job that might be a problem.

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:06 PM

    There are now 4,757,976 people in Ireland… I saw a funeral the other day?

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    Mute Upowthat Burke
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    Jul 14th 2016, 5:47 PM

    The best majority of those are thick

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    Mute Patricia McCarthy
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    Jul 14th 2016, 3:20 PM

    Judging from the photograph there are a good number of Leprechauns among the population.

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Jul 14th 2016, 12:49 PM

    Explains why the dole numbers goes down, I suppose?

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    Mute Alois Irlmaier
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    Jul 15th 2016, 12:58 AM

    In Donegal, Mayo and Sligo?

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    Jul 14th 2016, 1:44 PM

    I could be wrong but I think we are least densely populated country in Europe for our size?
    Ive read experts say that without the famine our population could be 15 million today.
    Then again wothout it would be have the same influence on the world…our culture and people exist and are known worldwide.

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    Mute GO GREEN
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    Jul 14th 2016, 10:49 PM

    We are well on the way to becoming an overpopulated little island with clogged roads and more and more pressure on health and housing no matter how much they put into it, it will never be enough. At least they should think about building up instead of turning the whole of Ireland into a bland suburbia.

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    Mute Joey Gee
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    Jul 14th 2016, 5:00 PM

    Do the ‘banana’ government agencies ever get anything right, or, is it just the input fron ‘thejournal.ie’?
    There are almost 6.5 million of us here.

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    Mute Paudi Onail
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    Jul 14th 2016, 7:19 PM

    at least 5.5 anyway.

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    Mute Ciaran O'Mara
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    Jul 14th 2016, 10:29 PM

    Should the Irish Times close down Generation Emigration now that we know there are more people than ever in Leitrim and Roscommon? We have been moaning on about the death of rural Ireland since 2008 but leaving aside Donegal there are more culchies than ever!

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    Jul 14th 2016, 3:37 PM

    Ha!

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    Mute Robin Aindriú Mac Eochaidh
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    Jul 14th 2016, 9:20 PM

    Actually that’s incorrect, the total population of Ireland is approx 6,500,000

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    Mute Charles Williams
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    Jul 14th 2016, 9:23 PM

    There are around 6.3 million people in Ireland around 4.7 million in the South and 1.6 million in Northern Ireland.The Journal should have been more specific in its description of the 4.7 million in the Republic.

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    Mute Ciaran O'Mara
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    Jul 14th 2016, 10:30 PM

    There are more.
    NI is almost 1.9 million

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    Jul 16th 2016, 7:33 PM

    Is it going to be a weekly series?

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