The Census revealed that the population is 48% Protestant and 45% Catholic. That looks significant but closing gap. Yet apparently it is a difference of 54,000 which does not seem that big at all. As the Unionist population is getting older and the Catholics are disproportionately of “child bearing age”. ……there will eventually be parity. So when? Census 2021? Census 2031?

I suppose a lot depends on outside factors. Now that Glasgow Rangers are confined to the dustbin of history……….there wont be many Scottish football titles heading to Ibrox. It would appear that in May each year, for a few years at least……..Celtic fans will have a lot to celebrate……..which could well lead to a rise  of Catholic births in February 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Of course we might have a decade of success on the GAA field……which would be good news for the birth rates in Tyrone, Derry, Down……and maybe Armagh.