Monday 27 March 2023

New Babys Names In The Six Counties 2022

Girls: Grace – 168 Babies Emily – 152 Babies Fiadh – 148 Babies Olivia – 141 Babies Isla – 118 Babies Aoife – 113 Babies Lily – 110 Babies Annie – 97 Babies Evie/Freya – 94 Babies Boys: James – 175 Babies Jack – 169 Babies Noah – 146 Babies Theo – 132 Babies Charlie – 131 Babies Oliver – 123 Babies Oisin – 119 Babies Harry – 118 Babies Cillian – 111 Babies Thomas – 107 Babies

Sunday 5 March 2023

North And South

People in the Six Counties are much less healthy than people in the rest of Ireland. So much for our wonderful NHS. The average person in the south can expect to live nearly ten years longer than his northern counterpart. In education it’s a similar tale. Young people (25-34) in the Republic who have had third-level education amounts to 55%. In the Six Counties it’s 40.7%. You’re three times more likely to quit school early in North than in the South. In work, the Six Counties leads the way, but not in a good sense. Nearly a third of people between 16-64 are neither in education or work. They are,“economically inactive”. In fact Northern Ireland has the highest score for economic inactivity for any region in the UK.