People from 188 different countries were living in the State at the time of the last census in 2006, new figures show.
Of the 420,000 non-Irish people residing here on census day in April 2006, the largest group was UK nationals, who numbered 112,000. Poles were the second-largest group, followed by Lithuanians, Nigerians and Latvians.
The top ten countries accounted for 82 per cent of the total non-Irish population, and there were 44 countries – from Anguilla to Western Sahara – represented by fewer than 10 people.
The report of the non-Irish population, released today by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), also shows that people from countries outside Europe had higher overall educational attainment than Irish people in the same age brackets.
In general, foreign nationals were concentrated either in cities, particularly Dublin and Galway, or in the popular tourist destinations on the western and southern seaboards. Leitrim, Longford, Waterford city and county, Carlow and North Tipperary all had fewer than 5,000 foreigners, while Dublin City, Fingal, South Dublin and Cork County all had more than 20,000.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2008/0630/breaking43.htm
Full CSO Report
http://www.cso.ie/releasespublications/documents/population/non-irish/nonirishnationalscomplete.pdf
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Back in 2006 just before the census the Polish community were saying there was 250,000 Poles in Ireland, but only 63,000 filled out their census forms. I expect the figures for the other nationalities to be similarly misleading.
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