Last year there were 14,400 deaths registered in Northern Ireland, a decrease of 3% from 2008. Last year also saw the lowest death rate in the history of Northern Ireland.

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The European Environment Agency (EEA) today launched its fourth Environment State and Outlook report - SOER 2010. This report provides an overview of the state of Europe’s environment, how and why it is changing, and what we are doing about it.

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The final results of the June 2010 Agricultural Census have been released by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

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Press release from the Department of Transport on capital investment and the 4 year plan.

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Energy Minister Eamon Ryan today announced the publication of new data that shows significant reductions in Ireland’s electricity and gas prices.

Official data published by Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, shows that in the year to June 2010:

In Electricity: Domestic prices fell 12.2% and were equal to the EU average For medium to large businesses, prices fell by 20% - 35%, compared with the EU average of 4% - the largest drop in the EU

In Gas: Domestic prices fe

The latest DAFT report has just been released.

The results from the latest Retail Sales Index have just been released by the CSO. This is an annual dataset with figures released on a national level.

The volume of retail sales (i.e. excluding price effects) increased by 2.0% in October 2010 when compared with October 2009 and there was a monthly increase of 0.5%.

The Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister published figures relating to religion analysis of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) on the 26th of November. The Labour Force Survey is a sample survey and similar exercises are conducted in all member states of the European Union.

In 2009 the religious composition of the population of working age in the LFS was found to be 51% Protestant and 49% Roman Catholic.

The AIRO website was officially launched on Thursday 25th of November 2010 at 3pm. The website was launched by Minister of State, Ciarán Cuffe, T.D.

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The CSO have just published the results of the 2009 Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) in Ireland. SILC is a household survey covering a broad range of issues in relation to income and living conditions.