Under the Belfast Agreement people in Northern Ireland have the right to identify themselves and be accepted as Irish or British or both and hold both British and Irish citizenship. ‘Princely sum’He said such people regarded themselves as British residents and paid British taxes. “It will come as a massive surprise that those thousands of people are not part of the people of Northern Ireland. Said Mr Campbell, “There are tens of thousands of people in Northern Ireland who have lived here virtually all their lives... and are not part of the people of Northern Ireland? Mr Campbell told the Irish Times that from the 2011 census this “anomaly” affected about 40,000 people born in the Republic after 1948 but living in Northern Ireland.

Source: The Irish Times March 10, 2021 16:47 UTC