The number of adult children living with their parents has almost doubled over the last decade to nearly 500,000,writes Joyce Fegan.

The number of adult children living with their parents has almost doubled over the last decade to nearly 500,000.

Anonymous sperm donation is to be banned under new draft legislation approved by the Government yesterday as clinics and hospitals will from early next year be required to provide details of donors and children to a national register.

Men should no longer be regarded as a family’s main breadwinner after a new study showed women make up at least half of workers in most parts of the country, said a leading British union.

Significantly more people in Northern Ireland consider themselves British as opposed to Irish, answers to a new census question have indicated.

The Campaign Against Household & Water Taxes (CAHWT) has claimed that the 2011 Census and an analysis by a Maynooth academic show that more than 1.8 million households must register for the Household Charge.

IT’S a pity that neither President Barack Obama nor Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will be on southern Irish soil until next month.

The 2011 Census is set to take place on Sunday April 10.

Two million forms have been printed for Census 2011, which is taking place on the night of April 10.

WHERE were your great- or even great-great-grandparents on the night of March 31, 1901?

One of the country’s best known historical writers is among group of experts who will decide how to honour the million people who died in the Great Famine.