Report shows city has highest proportion of non Irish nationals
Galway city has the highest proportion of non-Irish nationals nationwide.
That's according to new figures from the Central Statistics office published in the Regional Quality of Life in Ireland report.
Almost one fifth of the city's population (19.4%) is recorded as non-Irish, followed by Fingal at 18 percent and Dublin city at 17 percent.
In the county, almost 9 percent of the population is recorded as non-Irish.
Donegal recorded the lowest proportion of non-Irish nationals at 8 percent.
The data examining 2011 also shows that Galway city had the second highest proportion of African nationals at just over 2 percent.