BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | Quarter of police are Catholics

The percent (%) Catholic is increasing as follows over time:

2001: 8.0%
2005: 17.0%
2006: 19.5%
2008: 24.0%
2009: 26.14%

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RIRA/CIRA not in my name "They are traitors to the island of Ireland” Martin McGuinness

"All people are entitled to full cultural and social equality" Mary Lou McDonald

"Republicans recognise that we have a journey to travel in developing our own understanding of unionism." Gerry Adams

mean while protestant are 0.01% of the Garda

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It's good progress but the target should be 40%, not the official target of 30%.

There is no evidence that that is so.

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There is. The information was supplied under FOI a couple of years ago.

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Meaning it's out of date, not least given our population has risen by several hundred thousand since then.

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even it if there has been a 10 fold increase, its still 0.1 % or 1% if theres been a hundred fold increase, either way its still pretty unrepresentative, esp with protestents being 3.7% of the population, the point being that a police force should ideally be representative of the community it serves but should also be capable of serving all in society equally and not just based in religion / ethnicity, etc. I as a non Roman Catholic have never one in all my dealing with the police ever had the slightest issue with them, its only a pity that the same cannot be said for NI

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Enda Kenny on FF government: “We’re in this mess, not because Fianna Fáil policies have failed, but because they have succeeded.”

The 30% level is the point at which religious 50-50 rule is dropped. It does not mean that a 30% level is a target for recruitment.

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RIRA/CIRA not in my name "They are traitors to the island of Ireland” Martin McGuinness

"All people are entitled to full cultural and social equality" Mary Lou McDonald

"Republicans recognise that we have a journey to travel in developing our own understanding of unionism." Gerry Adams

I was in a garda station in Clare a few years ago (giving a statement as a witness to an accident, I might swiftly add before the wisecracks start) and the place had loads of Catholic icons on public view - e.g. Child of Prague statue, Sacred Heart picture - as well as a crucifix on the wall.

I just wondered if it was appropriate, and what we might say if the PSNI had Protestant/Orange Order stuff in their public offices.

Nice to see that PSF certainly doesn’t endorse sectarian head counting.
The amount of people belonging to a particular religion in any police force shouldn’t really matter.

Yes, but it's Northern Ireland. So it does.