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Ongar and Tallaght South have highest birth rates nationwide, while Galway City has the lowest

Meanwhile, Local Electoral Areas in Cork, Donegal and Mayo had more deaths than births in 2021.

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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    Jul 24th 2016, 6:47 PM

    Does this mean our insurance premiums will keep rising?

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    Jul 24th 2016, 11:25 PM

    as long as insurers make big profits and pay fat executive salaries then yes

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    Jul 24th 2016, 11:56 PM

    Who do you think is going to foot the bill for this payout to board hold.. I’m mean policy holders

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    Jul 24th 2016, 6:51 PM

    That’s good news. Those with policies are lucky to get payments.

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    Jul 24th 2016, 6:50 PM

    It’s one less player in the market.. So probably yes.

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    Jul 24th 2016, 9:03 PM

    I didn’t get refund when setanta collapsed. Just paid out 670 then it collapsed following week and had to insure myself again. Nightmare it was

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    Jul 24th 2016, 7:04 PM

    I thought all the insurance companies were supposed to be gouging massive profits from people? This doesn’t suit the narrative……..

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    Jul 24th 2016, 7:14 PM

    This isn’t about suiting any “narrative”. It’s concrete fact that car insurance companies are “gouging massive profits from people” and to suggest otherwise is lying as it’s a very personal impact considering people know exactly how much they’re paying…

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    Jul 24th 2016, 7:25 PM

    Apparently most insurers are running a loss on car insurance. They have to make it up with home insurance etc. The fact that people are suing when any kind of accident happens and the courts hand out ridiculously high settlements, is what is driving (excuse the pun) our premiums up.

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    Jul 24th 2016, 10:34 PM

    Insurance companies should change their underwriting criteria. They should load judges policies with €65,000 per annum to cover loses from ridiculously high settlements for bogus claims

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    Jul 24th 2016, 11:26 PM

    insurance companies are tidying up nicely, but they want you to think differently

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    Jul 24th 2016, 7:22 PM

    Nice to see somebody getting money we had Setanta Insurance for one month when it went bust and nothing back even though we done it through a broker

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    Jul 24th 2016, 8:35 PM

    I was in the same boat Donal…Great to see the policy holders with Enterprise are getting a refund..

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    Jul 24th 2016, 8:52 PM

    I’ve 3 weeks left on my policy. I wonder what that’s worth.

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    Jul 24th 2016, 10:55 PM

    21/366th of your original premium

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    Jul 24th 2016, 11:39 PM

    Roughly €23. Huge inconvenience though.

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