New lives and fresh beginnings in a different city

Ireland shouldn't follow the US lead in creating a welfare state, where the top 1% is subsidized completely, while the bottom % of people receiving welfare are supported by only the 60% of working people's taxes. It's not working very well for us here in the US. It started going downhill fast during the eighties. Now, things have swung so far out of control that the congress has no idea what they are doing. I worry about the demise of Democracy, here. I'd rather see the government shut down for a day than see Americans lose their hard earned rights to a decent retirement. Money deducted from our wages goes to pay for Social Security and Medicare, specifically. We can't allow the speculators to steal this money!

agree with george, i left in the last recession in 1979-1980, was in germany and holland, came home in 2001 just before the twin towers were hit and ireland was booming, went into transport and enjoyed a few good years of the so called celtic tiger, then in 2003-2004 noticed a massive surge of polish, latvian, russian and eastern nationals moving into all kinds of work, now the work has dried up the irish are leaving and the eastern europeans are still coming to sign onto the welfare, (wake up ireland),we will be left with asylum seekers, foreign nationals, and old people, and money grabbing politions, time to take to the streets..

Ireland's so-called emigration "crisis" is vastly over-hyped. The fact is that a person in their twenties often has an itch to go live somewhere else for a while. I did so myself at that age, living in both Ireland of the 1980s--not a bad place, though it had a tendency towards a police state--and Argentina just after the Malvinas War (sad place). I can't take anyone seriously who whines that Ireland has an emigration problem. If there are no jobs why are 60 to 70 thousand foreigners IMMIGRATING into the country every year? Or maybe the Irish capitalists are giving foreigners the jobs because they know they are docile and sheepish and will accept low pay and bad conditions?