'Natural population' rises by 12,099 in fourth quarter of 2007

Dublin- 58% of Irish women who have children before they're thirty - do so outside of marriage.
That's according to new CSO figures, which also reveal the 'natural population' rose by almost 13,000 between between July and September of last year. The oldest mothers registered - at 33 years of age - live in the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown area of Dublin, the youngest hail from Limerick and Waterford cities, the average age there being 29.