Friday 21 January 2011

A thousand people a week leaving Ireland

Telegraph
"As many as 100,000 people will abandon Ireland by April 2012, according to the state-funded Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). The republic is set to witness emigration on a larger scale than in the 1980s, ESRI said, as people vote with their feet to escape high unemployment, rising taxes and growing unrest over Dublin's austerity cuts.

Young graduates in particular are leaving Ireland in search of better opportunities in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

The rate of departure is set to be the highest in recent memory and overshadows the net outward migration peak of 44,000 in 1989. "

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