40,000 are leaving Ireland every year new figures show

This is terrible, but nobody cares to do something about it. Theres plenty to sell Ireland for 30 pieces

"America is in a hole just like Ireland, Australia and Canada is a much better place to go for a better life." Yeah, if you like working for 8 months of the year in a remote location in 6 ft of snow, or in a mine where the temperature approches 50 degrees Celsius!

Strictly speaking, the Irish aren't emigrating across the Irish Sea to either the United Kingdom (UK) or European Union (EU) - they're migrating! This is so due to a pre-EU Ireland/UK Free Travel Area (FTA)agreement. (England siphoned inestimable wealth out of Ireland over 800 years of colonisation. They owe us big time!) And since Ireland is a state of an essentially quasi-Federal Europe, Irish emigration is a European problem as much as migrating between United States is a Federal US issue. Irish emigration further afield to Australia (AUS)/Canada (CAN)/New Zealand (NZ) is equally a Commonwealth of Nations (CoN) issue, and essentially no business of racist Hibernophobic Ulster unionists/loyalists on line. Ireland currently has 15% unemployment, and 20% immigration, equaling a 5% disparity. Alas, Irish government ministers are disallowed connect these rather obvious dots by their faceless Eurocrat overlords unelected by Irish electorate - being inconsistent with Mission Europa. Many African and Chinese immigrants are in Ireland because the EuroFeds have agreements with both such continents. And remember - multiculturalism is a sanctified euphemism for cheap labour!

Keep your obnoxious Celtic Tiger trash in Europe,thats what you voted for.Nobody wants you, Oz,Nz,Canada are sick of dealing with "shur we are only having da crack boys"

Warrenpoint--"ideal emigrant should have fair skin and blue eyes". You're a stupid racist fool, Warrenpoint. Keep your garbage for the British National Front sites you frequent. You're a bigoted idiot.

Woundedknee is off his head. He likes to believe "Most young Irish would give an arm and a leg to be permitted to immigrate into the US. The only reason the figures for Irish immigration are low is because we don't let most of them in--they have nothing to offer" Maybe in the 80s that was the case but not today. America is in a hole just like Ireland, Australia and Canada is a much better place to go for a better life. WoundedKnee you sound so thick and so 80s you need to travel.......

Old Woundedknees really does believe that his ideal emigrant should have fair skin and blue eyes. A certain mass murderer from Germany had the same opinion about his ideal race back in the 1930s.

oaklongan i never said Ireland needs immigration into it....

Bobby, Why would Ireland, given it's geography and native Celt people, need immigration into it? Is is like Germany was 30 years back? German companies brought in Turkish and East Asian people for labor; however Germany is larger !!

Wounded Knee, was thinking about all the articles the past year on Irishcentral about immigration from many areas on the globe INTO Ireland... had no idea this had/was happening ! Wouldn't it logically follow that at least some of the lack of employment opportunities in Eire are because of it (immigration INTO Eire)?? I've never set foot on the Eire of my Grandparents and wonder if the unique, 'magical' feel of Eire would be what I've heard about read...? Sad if the erosion of the Spiritual Essence of Ireland is slowly or now now more swiftly melting away...

merefalow, what is wrong with xenophobia? you must be young. i am old enough to have experienced anti-irish attitudes and behavior. those were expressions of xenophobia.

surely there are some people in Ireland to stop the destruction of an nation.whats happening to it now makes the past struggle futile,whats wrong with xenophobia when you see your country disappearing before your eyes,am i tribal,yes i bloody am,and there is nothing wrong in that,stuff your multi racial multi cultural eu driven mass uncontrolled no border package where the sun dont shine.

Long as Finn Gael keeps the heat on Sinn Fein and the Red Shirts, Ireland can always count on its Daily Ration of Cheese and Bread from The Saxons !

ancavker: You are very patient to reply to the nonsense about the US written by that poster Ciaran. What a joke--an Irishman telling us that we are in recession and terminal decline. Look around your own country, you dope Ciaran! Most young Irish would give an arm and a leg to be permitted to immigrate into the US. The only reason the figures for Irish immigration are low is because we don't let most of them in--they have nothing to offer.

You can see the future of Ireland already in certain parts of Dublin's North Side. Walk around, especially on a Sunday morning, and all you'll see are Chinese, Eastern Europeans, Indians, Africans etc, etc. Ireland's future--an Ireland without Irish people. It's called ethnosuicide. The Irish go, the foreign migrants say "Thanks for leaving, now I'll take your place".