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ONGAR IN FINGNAL and Tallaght South in South Dublin were the Local Electoral Areas to have the highest birth rates in 2021.
The Central Statistics Office today published its birth and death findings for 2021.
Some 60,575 births occurred in 2021, with Dublin’s North Inner City having the highest number of births across the country’s 166 LEAs, at 755.
Nationally, the birth rate stood at 11.5 per 1,000 population in 2021 and was highest in both Ongar and Tallaght South at 15.3.
Galway City Central meanwhile had the lowest birth rate, at 8.3 per 1,000 population, followed closely by Glenties in Co Donegal (8.6) and Belmullet in Co Mayo (8.8).
The birth rate looks at the entire population in an area, while fertility rates only focus on females.
Nationally, the fertility rate stood at 47.5 births per 1,000 females and was highest in Carrick-On-Shannon in Co Leitrim at 61.2.
This is followed by Enniscorthy, Co Wexford (60.8), and Ballybay-Clones, Co. Monaghan (60.6).
On the other end of the scale, urban LEAs such as Dublin’s South-East Inner City (29.8), Galway City Central (30.5), and Dublin’s North Inner City (31.1) had the lowest general fertility rate.
In addition to analysing the number of births, the CSO data also looked at the number of deaths.
In 2021, there were 34,844 deaths in Ireland, with Clontarf in Dublin City recording the highest proportion of deaths at 1.5%, or 528 deaths.
Belmullet in Co Mayo, Glenties in Co Donegal, and Bantry-West Cork were the only LEAs to record more deaths than births in 2021.
All three areas also recorded the highest crude death rates, which is the number of deaths divided by the population in an area.
Belmullet had 56 more deaths than births, Glenties recorded 37 more deaths than births, while this figure in Bantry-West Cork was 31.
On the other end of the spectrum, Ongar had 550 more births than deaths, followed by Nass in Co Kildare on 493, and Swords, Fingal on 488.
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I hope the Dog is ok???.
I presume he was given a Tetanus shot after biting them $cum….
That’s what these dogs are trained to do in unruly situations. Protecting their handlers is a natural instinct and to do the job that they are trained to do.
I hope that the dog isn’t punished and put down or carted off to some unknown place and used as a ‘guard dog’ to patrol some dump!
‘ Atta Boy….good doggie. LOL .
Ruff day at the office
Bite first…. Ask questions later….!
Imagine what the poor staff are subjected to on occasions like that reported. Maybe they should all be issued with a police dog?
People in the south don’t know how lucky they are not having to deal with thousands of these marches every year. Fascist nutjobs and their pisshead hangers on cause chaos everywhere they go and everyone has to put up with it because it’s supposed to be traditional. These people are less than 10% of the population but they hold everyone else hostage. Total joke!
Flegs and marches and buckfast and drugs. Sure it’s their TRADITION!!!
‘Dog bites man’, not a story. ‘Man bites dog’, now that would be a story…
“Man bites dog” is a film…… dark dark film
Incidentally the media are not mentioning that yesterday was the ‘start’ of the marching season, so thousands of drunken loyalists were probably roaming the streets. And I love when they say the start of the season as if we ever get even a month’s break from the drivel.
Is the incident out on video yet ? Its always so disappointing when you see police dogs in action on TV and they aren’t allowed to bite the bum off a crim.
A snap decision, I presume!
The only real question is were those bitten taking part in the disorder or just caught up at the start and hadn’t time or opportunity to get away. If first then good, it’s not a news item. If the latter then possibly questions should be asked ref the control the handler had on his/her dog.
Be very surprised if they were innocent as generally muzzles don’t come off until its clear that innocents are cleat and dogs are kept close to the handler and a distance away.
II hope they sue the police for damages.
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