North of Ireland Politics

Their is no logic to the right-wing Brexiteer mentality. Every single argument they put forward could be picked apart by a small child. Unionists seem to be solely supporting it because the British right are. An opportunity to actually feel part of the UK and wave a flag for a reason other than annoying the other side. 

bogball88 wrote: Figures for religious breakdown in NI companies with 26 or more employees in 2017 https://www.equalityni.org/ECNI/media/ECNI/Publications/Delivering%20Equality/FETO%20Monitoring%20Reports/No28/companies_data/MonReport28-CompanyData-Priv26-Employees.pdf

SuperDave84 wrote: In a lot of those cases, it's partly a factor of history and partly a factor of geographic location. Companies with places all over the north (like supermarkets and banks) have mixed workforces but the likes of Shorts, with all their workers in East Belfast, are naturally going to be a lot more protestant. For example, my dad's workplace is in Omagh and it's 64% catholic, 36% protestant, which is close to the census figures: 71.32% belong to or were brought up in the Catholic religion and 25.36% belong to or were brought up in a 'Protestant and Other Christian (including Christian related)' religion. I'd imagine the same is true of a lot of employers.

bogball88 wrote: jamie2905 wrote: SuperDave84 wrote: In a lot of those cases, it's partly a factor of history and partly a factor of geographic location. Companies with places all over the north (like supermarkets and banks) have mixed workforces but the likes of Shorts, with all their workers in East Belfast, are naturally going to be a lot more protestant. For example, my dad's workplace is in Omagh and it's 64% catholic, 36% protestant, which is close to the census figures: 71.32% belong to or were brought up in the Catholic religion and 25.36% belong to or were brought up in a 'Protestant and Other Christian (including Christian related)' religion. I'd imagine the same is true of a lot of employers. Yeah definitely agree with that SuperDave, mostly based on geographic locations, but I still expected Shorts (Bombardier for those not familiar) to have moved away from such a huge base of predominantly one religion. Over 4000 employees and only 699 catholics was very surprising in my opinion. Caterpillar (70% protestant) was another interesting figure Not really. Plants are based in Larne and Monkstown

Couldn't pay me enough to live there. 

Edited by SuperDave84 - 17 Apr 2019 at 2:26pm

SuperDave84 wrote: There are three good things about Larne: 1) there's a dual carriageway / motorway all the way to Belfast 2) there's a railway all the way to Belfast 3) the coast road heads north out of Larne And not coincidentally, none of those three things are really in Larne.

pre Madonna wrote: The Huntacha wrote: Very few places in Ireland as grim as Larne. Mad to think that polls based on employee religious choices are still going around in 2019.  It’s mental.