You can perform some calculations using this data to suggest that around half the people born in Britain have been granted Irish citizenship.

The 2016 census was taken two months before the Brexit vote so it will be interesting to see the change.

British citizens can vote in Irish elections & referendums without needing Irish citizenship and vice versa. They just need an address here. They're probably the main migrant group who do this and who also complete the census. Bear that in mind.

If you recall, Enda Kenny took a trip to England ahead of the Brexit vote to persuade Irish people living in Britain to vote against it. I think the system we share is mutually unethical but I won't get into that here.

I'd say Brazilians (30% of whom are LGBT apparently) and most other migrant groups are significantly undercounted like the Chinese I mentioned before, so always keep that in mind when reading any CSO figures too.

No chance there are only 15,976 Brazilians here with 2,336 having Irish citizenship.

So that leaves us the question: How many people were born in Ireland to non-Irish parents...

It's a very difficult figure to gauge by looking at the census data.

You can do some very rough beer mat calculations and arrive at a figure of 3.7% of the total population but I wouldn't present that with any conviction.

The CSO do collect data on the number of people who don't speak English or Irish at home. It's probably something more practical to look at. Under the age of 18, the figure is 14.1%.

It's also worth highlighting these two stats:

🔹 A 2014 Trinity College study found 25% of children were born to "non-national mothers" (this presumably excludes the foreign-born with Irish citizenship).

🔹 25% of children are born to "non-Irish fathers" (not sure how they're differentiating Irish/non-Irish or where they got the figure)

I'm going to give you the raw data on place of birth so you have it. You can compare it to this year's data when it's released.

The CSO have changed their system for accessing the raw data. I couldn't find the birthplace data on their website when I went looking there.

The CSO used to have this great live map where you could click on the different electoral divisions and find out how much diversity is there.

This screenshot for example shows 54.5% of a district in north Dublin are foreign born.

If you click on that link now, it just says the data can't be added to the map. 🤷🏻‍♂️😥

Irish people are now a minority in two thirds of north inner city Dublin but the authorities are still laying on the initiatives to integrate the foreigners there.

At what point do they start the programmes to integrate the natives into the void of multiculturalism?

Here are twelve electoral divisions in Ireland where people who are foreign-born are more than 50% of the population.

Kilderry in Donegal has an asterisk after it. It's excluded as these would more than likely be mostly people born in the north.

Here's what the black population in Ireland looks like up close. Males in blue and females in pink for each age bracket.

Total number recorded: 64,639 or 1.4% of the overall population.

1.4% of the population but 50% of the models in ads...😁

You can see they were 3.3% of the 10-14 age bracket in 2016.

You can also see between the ages of 30 and 44, there's a lot more women than men. That's the anchor baby phenomenon.

In 1999, only 2% of babies in Ireland were born to non-nationals but by 2003, the figure was almost 20%.

Declan Keane, head doctor at Dublin's National Maternity Hospital told RTÉ that 70% of the women were coming from sub-Saharan Africa and the majority of those from Nigeria. He said a number of women were travelling while actually in labour.

The problem was being experienced at all three of Dublin's maternity hospitals.

Despite the result of the birthright citizenship referendum in 2004, the anchor baby phenomenon never went away, but was curtailed. We might be able to see by how much when this year's census results are released.

I won't get into it too much now. Here's a clip from season 2 of the RTÉ series about the Rotunda maternity hospital.

A Nigerian discovers she's pregnant so she flies to Dublin, claims asylum and delivers triplets. I heard another series of the show featured a second Nigerian with the exact same story — triplets and everything.

If you watch any of the show, a massive proportion of the mothers featured are foreign.

A tragic story I saw during the week: The child of one Eastern European couple suffered an acute brain injury during his birth as his mother's caesarean section was delayed due to the unavailability of a theatre.

They were awarded €19 million.

It's now 9PM so you are legally required to fill in the 2022 census. I wonder how many of you are breaking the law...😱

Just heard that the Child Benefit is paid at double the normal monthly rate for each child if you have triplets.

So that's €840 a month, no questions asked until they're 17 years old. Love to know how many foreign women are delivering triplets here...

62,032 Muslims were recorded in Ireland in the 2016 census. Just over half (33,971) had Irish citizenship.

This table shows you where the other half had citizenship.

There's no method to read the census data to find out where Muslims are moving to in Ireland.

However, 42,670 people recorded their place of birth in Muslim majority countries. You are able to discover which counties they live in now, so this offers a suggestion.

The lion's share are in Dublin (46.9%) as you'd expect.

18% in Dublin city.
11.8% in Fingal.
10.4% in South Dublin
6% in Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown.

23% live in Munster.
8% in Cork.
6.3% in Limerick.

.47% live in Leitrim — the lowest.

The largest number were born in Pakistan (12,891) which is four times the size of the next largest who were born in Bangladesh (3410).

This graph shows the growth in the Muslim population every census since 2002.

This graph shows you the size of the minority religions. Muslim and Orthodox are on equal footing.

There are slightly more Jedi Knights than Jewish people in Ireland but they're both hovering around the 4K mark (only a Sith deals in absolutes).

Only around one thousand Jewish people were recorded in the 2011 census so they quadrupled their number in five years.

Will the Jedi be able to keep up...

A large proportion of the foreign-born of every nationality live in Fingal and Dublin City with the exception I think of the UK who are more spread out around Ireland — possibly a lot of retirees.

This shows you some of the data.

50.1% of Somalians live in Dublin city & Fingal (752).
48.5% of Romanians (13,930).
55.3% of Brazilians (8,736).

You can see the link to this data is now dead as they've changed the system.

This is Fingal County Council celebrating that there was an 8.1% increase in the population in Fingal — over twice the national rate of increase.

At the time of the 2016 census results, 35% of the rent supplement was being paid out nationwide to house non-Irish nationals.

39% of people on the social housing list in Fingal were also non Irish nationals. 16% were from outside the EU.

In 2011, more than half of the applicants for social housing in Fingal were from abroad. Perhaps they started granting a lot of citizenships to get the number down...

I don't know what there is to celebrate, but they were very happy.

This is the population size in Dublin recorded at every census from 1841 to 2016.

There were long periods where it is fairly flat followed by spurts of growth.

There's a big increase in population between 1961 and 1979.
Lots of building out the suburbs then.

Then it was mostly flat again until the 1991 census.

Then the new plantation began.
Huge leaps in population size every census.

You see jumps of 75,000+.
Housing construction didn't match the pace.

34,000 new homes are needed every year for next decade.
-Central Bank