“6,013 births were registered outside of marriage. Almost half of these occurred in Limerick City.” – that means that 3000 births outside of marriage occured in Limerick… so yes. They are crazy randy down there :-)

Open the CSO link, there were 172 births in Limerick City for that period

I was just going by the article….. though they are quite a randy bunch down there, so it’s not beyond belief ;-)

The baby boomers of previous recessions (80′s) such as my self, are of child baring age so it goes with out saying that a rise would occur now. 30 odd years from now we’ll see another baby boom as kids from this boom will have their own kids. :) it’s like a pendulum…

Not available for the latest quarter but breakdown for the first three months of 2011 is:
Irish – 77.7 per cent
UK – 2.2 per cent
EU15 – 1.4 per cent
Accession states – 10.4 per cent (2,068 babies)
Other – 7.7 per cent

Sinead

Thank you, Sinéad.

Sean – since all the babies were born here – I think that means the nationality of all the babies is irish :)

Think you zoned out during the nationality referendum a decade back, that is not the case anymore.

Don’t talk to me about zonking out! Ha, I could tell you stories! But we can still ask the question. Can’t we?

Children born here to parents of non-national identity cannot be Irish citizens automatically. I voted no to it, did you? ;)

“At a certain stage the debate begins to become personal; at that stage it’s wise to make no further comment.”

Just because the mothers arent married doesnt mean they are on welfare!

yes because they all use the same tactic of having babies so they can live in the poverty trap, struggling to raise kids on their own, how about forcing the unmarried father to contribute? there is no further recourse once court order is given, if the absent father continues to not pay there is nothing more to be done

There are entry of co habitation couples out there who for whatever reason don’t believe in marriage

So the state is enticing people not to get married with their damn welfare handouts? You say it like being a single parent is firstly only something a woman can experience (you say single mother’s allowance, it’s single parent’s allowance) and secondly you imply it’s a negative thing. Surely all that matters is the child is brought up within a loving family? Be it one or two parent, or maybe more parental influences.

There’s also plenty of LGBT parents too out there their not married

Who told you that? Of course it’s not like this. Non-national’s babies born here aren’t Irish automatically and they may not be at all. Even though I heard that the EU wants it to be automatic as some non-nationals parents have been deported after having kids here (not for this reason tho).