Irish Examiner view: A picture of the challenges we are facing

Census results

The percentage of owner-occupied properties fell four point from 70% to 66%.

For an event which largely figures in the popular imagination as the backdrop to the story of the Nativity, or perhaps through a throwaway line in The Silence of the Lambs, the census certainly repays one’s attention.

Theinformation released yesterday from the 2022 census is a case in point — we have learned, for instance, that the reference to the Nativity above may not be recognisable to as many people as before, given the proportion of people identifying as Roman Catholic has dropped from 79% in the 2011 census to 69%.