We Passed 5 Million Population this Evening.

And gas to think that we're only 0.06% of the total global population...

Something to tell the grandkids about

We were actually supposed to have a census in April, we would have known the real population if it had been held. Postponed to April 2022 instead.

Depends what you have eaten

Building electric cars contribute to global warming and heavy breathing of the working(robots?)involved.The next official Irish government census will determine how many people are living here.If,they all participate,that is.

4,588,252 was the population 10 years ago in 2011 as per that census.

4,757,976 in 2016

5,000,102 now ?

Around 411,850 more people living here now then 10 years ago.

our population has increased by around 9% (8.976% to be exact) in a decade.

is that growth sustainable ? I doubt it. That growth won’t stop..An island nation our size and how we live I think we is in trouble.

I'll happily stand corrected on this but I believe larger families lived in smaller houses, and a large number of those houses were knocked by the british landlords after the introduction of a property tax. It led to an incredible amount of evictions which led to an incredible rate of emigration.

Have a look at the historical maps on the OSI website. Just look at your own area or any rural area at the pre-famine and post-famine and you can see the wipeout of the small 1-acre type households.. or look at the census data for inner-city Dublin.

They live in hovels, mostly. But that was because they were poor, not because they were numerous. The dramatic fall in population after the famine was not associated with an improvement in housing conditions; people still lived in hovels. It was another generation before the land wars lead to reforms which saw living standards for tenant farmers start to rise in any significant way and - as far as housing conditions went - that was a painfully slow process.

I remember being at some lecture where the famine era population decline in Cavan was mentioned. Pre famine the county was quite wealthy as had a substantial linen and textile industry. This was wiped out in the mid 1840s and lead to mass emigration

I reckon we reached 5 mil a couple of years ago,census returns can't be 100% accurate.There are thousands of people who do not return census forms and are undocumented in the country.

Still doesn't sound in that bad compared the state that many council tenants leave their free rent houses now

Not a chance if potentially bogus asylum seekers are given their own door properties after four months whether their claim is legitimate or not.

That's why I think the Global warming scare stories are all talk, no action.

People can't grasp compund figures , population will double in less than 50 years in my opinion.

It’s based on reality...

hospital waiting lists are unreal, public transport struggles to cope with demand, social welfare bill is rising..lots of jobs being lost to automation/technology but some people want more people competing for fewer jobs. More people competing for and driving up property prices. More people fighting to access health services etc..with priority given to medical card holders and those with health insurance.

irelands population grows .97% per annum... of the whole continent not just the EU, we are in third place, in terms of population growth rate, only behind Luxembourg and Cyprus.

more people arrive looking for dig outs, hand outs, leg ups... we need to be of the ability to limit this... as of now we cannot...the EU is failing it’s citizens by prioritizing the wellbeing and welfare of non EU citizens. Non tax payers...

pits going to effect our wellbeing big time, it’s started and it will get worse before it gets better.

Our services can barely cope with the amount of people we have here already without adding more to the population

The funding for that simply comes at a cost to our own wellbeing really ... keep the population ballpark to what it is.. ensure the best of accessible health, education, support services and excellent public transport infrastructure and services are readily available and attainable to the citizens and taxpayers here..

if and when we want to give a dig out, that should be our call.

In the proclamation of the republic ...the right of the people of Ireland to the ownership of Ireland is enshrined.

That goes against this EU shîtshow which shows we are no longer the ultimate decision makers.

 A population of eight million was the product of an impoverished, peasant society.

Nonsense, prove it.

Do you think that 28 million population of today's Belgium and the Netherlands, 2 countries which cover an area no greater than the Irish republic, is the product of an "impoverished, peasant society".

Can you provide data to suggest that Filipinos, Africans, and Eastern Europeans have returned home en-masse? Otherwise, I’d venture that you’re speaking through your hole.

I have a close association with the caring sector for family reasons. Foreign carers have not emigrated in appreciable numbers. On the the other hand, you seem to be suggesting that we construct a giant pyramid scheme of Irish society. This notion is nearly as maniacal as your attitude to working from home.

Well, Scandinavia has vast areas of uninhabited land, same as Australia, due to mountains, forests, deserts, tundra.

Ireland has no such thing. The population density is sparse, but one-off houses are everywhere, with people demanding the same services as those who live in cities.