1000 irish emigrating every week. irish emigrating for work

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News says that over 1000 irish people are now emigrating each and every week. leaving ireland to find work in another country.
canada, australia and other parts of europe.
news stories of irish emigrants leaving ireland every week.
You can see them every day at Dublin’s International Airport. Couples locked in teary embraces, damp-eyed mums and dads farewelling sons and daughters. Friends promising to stay in touch.

1000 people are leaving each week, heading to the four corners of the world in search of work and a better life. Many, like electrician Alan Niland and chef Sean Sherry are going to Australia.
“Leaving here is a big thing and everyone doesn’t want to go. It’s a last resort really.” Alan Niland Irish Electrician
Alan‘s heading to Melbourne and the promise of a job with an Irish electrician. Sean Sherry has been unemployed for the first time in a 25 year career and his fruitless job search has dragged on for 12 months. He now has no choice but to leave his girlfriend and her daughter and take up a job offer on a cruise ship operating from Australia. He has to work to service the mortgage on a house that has crashed in value.

“I was driving home one day and I just had a panic attack. What will I do? (I was) on the motorway. I had to pull in. I was just panicking: ‘what will I do?’ My God, I can’t get a job.” Sean Sherry Irish Chef

Sean and Alan are the human faces of a savagely battered economy. Ireland flew fast and high on the back of easy money and a contrived real estate boom. When the GFC hit, highly leveraged economies like Iceland, Greece and Ireland were disasters waiting to happen.

“We went from being a country with a banking system to a banking system with a country stuck onto it because the banks became three times bigger than the gross national product of the country” David McWilliams Economist

As Ireland prepares to go to the polls looking to punish politicians complicit in the economic failure and hoping for a government that can lead them out of the mess, reporter Emma Alberici examines the harrowing human experiences surrounding Ireland’s Generation Exit.

“All our young people are going. It’s not only the immigrants that have come into the country and gone home. It’s all our young people, all our own are going.” Rita Niland Alan Niland’s mum
1000 irish emigrating every week. irish emigrating for work
Documenting Ireland's brain drain
Paul Clarke
Ireland is losing talent, at a rate of around 1,000 people every week to be exact.
Financial services professionals are among those seeking pastures new amid a dearth of opportunities locally and, if you're one of the throngs of emigrating Irish, there's a new chance to express your anger about the country's situation on the web.
Ireland's Lost Wall is the brain-child of Dublin web-design company The Social House, and seeks to document the whys and wheres of the emigrating masses.
There's little evidence of an exodus of financial professionals on the site (aside from one accountant who moved to London because she was "inputting receipts all day" back home), but the site's creator Colin Hart insists the sector is well-represented.

"Professional people – bankers, accountants and solicitors – have been unable to find work in Ireland and have been forced to choose between retraining or leaving the country. It's been a nightmare for them as well as other sectors of society," he says.

Around 300 people are now on the list since the its launch last week, but Hart says around 4,000 have visited the site. The aim is also to project the virtual list on to prominent buildings around Dublin until the Irish general election on Friday.

So far, the Fine Gael building (pictured) has been targeted, but expect the same on the Fianna Fail and Labour Party HQ as well as potentially AIB and Anglo Irish Bank before the end of the week.

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Bankers be warned, however, you're unlikely to be a particularly popular addition to the list.

"There's a certain Irish wit to the messages on the wall, but there's really a deep underlying resentment. Not just to bankers, but politicians and other businessmen who landed us in this mess," says Hart.

Such barbed banker-bashing messages include:

"You have no idea how much I wanted to stay at home, but thanks to our banks, politicians and businessmen, I'm here." - Cráinne Tornáir, Amsterdam

"Politicians, bankers and business men. Most other places in the world they are respected, but in Ireland they are a bad word" – Dane King, Vancouver.

Of course, all of the above makes this concept seem rather bleak. However, the idea is that you put your name on the list when you leave and take it off again when you're (hopefully) able to return home again.
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thousands are sailing, those people who were so greedy did this to ireland, not just fianna fail.

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