Timorese in Northern Ireland are a recent group of immigrants who primarily live around the towns of Dungannon and Portadown.
[1] The 2011 Northern Ireland census recorded 894 residents born in East Timor.
[1] As they are mostly Catholic, the East Timorese community and other immigrants have occasionally been attacked by Ulster loyalists,[3] including in 2011 when violence in Portadown caused hundreds of Timorese residents to flee.
[3] Dungannon has a population of many other Portuguese speaking immigrants, especially from Portugal, Brazil, and Mozambique.
Many of the Portuguese-speaking residents celebrated together after Portugal's triumph in the UEFA Euro 2016.