40,000 are leaving Ireland every year new figures show

No Gammyknee im not, how THICK you are. You should crawl back into that hole and rot......Dumbass......

irelandmusic: Look up DIMIA on the internet for the Australian department of immigration. Don't know much about Canada's system, although I believe it's similar to Australia's

Bobby: You're not Irish? I suspect the Irish posters here will be happy to hear it.

Also known as Dickhead. Small minded person you are. Who said i was Irish?

bobby: That word knob-head is one I am not familiar with. I looked it up and it seems it is British slang (why don't the Irish have the wit to invent their own slang?) for glans pen1s. I am gratified that you share my judgment that I am endowed with a "proper" apparatus of this type.

The biggest DOPE on this site is Gammyknee. Proper knobhead

Thanks to Wou’Knee at 4.25pm EDT yesterday for a great laugh!! I'm still chucklin...

if that is true I wonder if they will relax the laws to let people in I would love to live aand work there but from what Ive been told you can not get a work permit unless your emplyment is on a list does anyone know any thing about this?

I sympathize fully. yet, just yet, if I could convince my Irish-American wife, I would be in Ireland in a heartbeat. Have never felt such a pull since my visit in 2004. What is it about us non-Irish that have this passion for the land? Norsemen, Norman, Saxon, Welch, Scots, Angles, &, more recently, all EuroNations & third world nations have made claims on Irish soil. So, I will make no bogus claim & will stay in the U.S. Would hope that circumstances occur that the Irish diaspora will return & the immigrants leave that unique land to the rightful owners. The last I heard, they did spend 800 years of struggle to (partially) reclaim it.

Russia is the next big thing-anyone who worked in Germany on the construction in the 80's and 90's will know what I am talking about. They have trillions to spend, thanks to their mineral and oil boom. There was an article on IC recently about how they are going to totally revamp Moscow and fix the country's infrastructure. There's not much going on in Australia and Canada apart from the mining and logging, if you fancy a nice office job in Toronto or Sydney, forget it. Get your nailbags on, lads, and I'll see you on site in Vladivostok!

It seems only the dopes from Ireland post on this site. The rest of the Irish--the ones we don't hear from--are quite sane and smart. For example, no sane Irishman would prefer to live and work in Manitoba or Alberta over living and working in Florida or Georgia. In Manitoba the two greatest causes of death are death by freezing and death by boredom. The Irish here who claim to the contrary have probably never been beyond Manchester England for a soccer game.

I can’t agree Australia’s property market will go bust like Ireland’s did. Australia’s economy is booming because of the demand for iron ore principally from China, which needs it for its own booming construction activity. That is why the mining industry there is flying high. Disturbing news is coming from China that many apartment blocks and office blocks built in many cities so far have no tenants or buyers. If that leads to a collapse of the Chinese demand for Oz’s iron ore, then Oz’s economy will collapse too. BTW – Curitiba is dead right about working in Canada in deep snow-drifts! It gets so cold there in winter that – you know how your eyes water up from a blast of cold wind? – your tears will freeze instantly! Good luck t'ya when you try opening yr eyes again!

@ankavker. No,but I am suggesting that successive Irish governments,both FF and FG, both with TD's, who were, and still are,predominantly from the the professional middle classes,have shown nothing but complacency since independence as the best of Irish talent leave in droves. One can certainly blame the British for centuries of misrule when countless numbers left-my own extended family included.But Ireland's present economic woes are largely of her own making. Incidentally,merely to present a balanced argument-which country has helped Ireland most since the tiger expired? Nice irony isn't it? The UK!

Your right ancavker, Australia is going the same way as Ireland did 3 years ago. They will have a property bust in the next couple of years.

Curtiba: You are right that the U.S. is in a hole. But Canada and Australia will be heading there soon. Another nasty world recession is coming next year, and it will take those countries with it.