Average age of Irish emigrants jumps to 32 according to latest figures

When the Celtic Tiger was riding high on the hog of economic success, I saw and heard a girl aged about 15 loudly boast on Teilifis Éireann that Ireland was now a multi-cultural, multi-lingual, multi racial, multi-religious country and that such diversity was so great for the country. I wondered if there was room for céili dancing, pagpipe munic agus teanga na nGael among all this great diversity.

Well said, Seanmor. Sin é díreach. Well-qualified and mature Irish people are heading for the exits while the inward flow of predominantly unskilled migrant workers, all of child-bearing age, continues unstopped. It's creating a vast dependency culture in Ireland, where the migrants line up to get their payments from the government and contribute nothing to the nation, its culture or economy. And don't forget the startling statistic--Nigerians in Ireland repatriated not too far off a BILLION dollars back home last year, even tho most Nigerians are on welfare. Explain that to me, someone.

The article does not tell us the average of immigrants to Ireland, many of whom bring with them young children who benefit handsomely from liberal benefits at the expense of Irish taxpayers. Many Irish emigrants in their late 20s and early 30s probably have skills and education that are beneficial to the countries that accept to them. This means that emigration and immigration are a lose, lose situation for the economy of Ireland.