GALWAY CITY POPULATION UP BY 4.8 PER CENT
Date Published: 29-Mar-2012
The population of Galway city grew by 4.8% in the last five years to just under seventy one thousand, according to figures published today by the Central Statistics Office.
The first set of Census results show that the population of Ireland rose to almost four million five hundred and ninety thousand between 2006 and 2011.
It means that in the 20 years since 1991 - the number of people living here has jumped by more than one million.