Protestants are happier and safer when they feel they are in a majority.’46 That mind set has led to a Protestant migration to the east, which has left the Catholics with almost 60 per cent of the statelet’s land mass. And the migration does not stop at the seashore. The middle class, whose children should be providing the Protestant elite of the future, are increasingly sending their children to be educated in English universities and, ipso facto, to mainland English society. The result is that the Catholic enrolment at Queen’s University, Belfast, is nearing the 65 per cent mark.
