Ireland’s recession ends but unemployment soars

Searlit: "In an effort to keep wages low, companies hire immigrants. This hurts the overall economy in that it weakens the middle class, which is the backbone of any economy". Spot on. When I was in ireland I heard lots of stories of Polish guys living twenty to a house. They could do that because their stand of living in Poland was low, and because they were in Ireland to make money to send home. Contrast that with a young Irishman with a wife and family. He can't live rough like the foreign migrants, he has to provide a decent home for his dependents. That means he can't work for the sub-minimum wages that the irish bosses offer to the foreign migrants. Mass Immigration is the greatest disaster to hit Ireland since the Potato Famine, and unlike the Famine, it has been caused by the Irish themselves.

"Ireland’s recession ends" ... LOL

the coc-ksucker, who got the country into this mess, is the same di-cks who claim the recession is over! people, look around you! why would we believe these cu-nts now?

In an effort to keep wages low, companies hire immigrants. This hurts the overall economy in that it weakens the middle class, which is the backbone of any economy. The world is in a mess becuse of "supply side economics" or as George Bush Sr. once said "voodoo economics".

As one or two other posters have pointed out elsewhere on this site, it is hard to feel sympathetic for the Irish unemployment "problem" when they continue to give jobs to huge numbers of foreign immigrants. The last time I went thru Dublin Airport I was struck by how few Irish people are working there. I saw Poles, Russians, Africans, lots of Indians and Pakistanis, Chinese of course... The Irish prefer to employ foreigners and keep their own people on welfare.