Irish people are becoming less religious according to a major new survey.

Less than half of us would consider ourselves to be religious leaving us 43rd out of 57 countries.

The WIN-Gallup international Religion and Atheism Index measures global self-perception on belief.

It found that poorer countries are more religious than richer nations.

And that many Irish people have been questioning their faith in the wake of the abuse scandals in the Catholic Church.

Sinead Mooney is Deputy Managing Director of Red C research.

She explains the drop in the number of people who would call themselves religious.