Dublin Airport’s new gateway to the U.S. opens this week

It doesn't take a very intuitive person to hop in a lifeboat when the waters lapping over the gunnels. It's a chapter right out of Darwin's book: "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". The smartest and most educated will wind up in America and the mediocre tradesmen and women in the UK. It happened many times in the past and, as we all know but refuse to accept, history repeats itself!

This is a very pessimistic attitude, I don't know why so many of the articles, lately, keep mentioning the amount of people emigrating from Ireland and how it's expected to increase. It's seems strange that anyone on either side of the Atlantic would think this was something to be encouraged or touted about.

More of the centralised b.s.operating in Ireland right now-where everything goes to dirty dublin-the most unfriendly excuse of a city i was ever in. Plus it's a total rip off, people are rude and crime rates are through the roof; avoid it like the plaque. Compare this to Shannon where the opposite is true and where the Real Ireland begins and ends. It is Shannon that should have gotten the new terminal not west britain.

"Dublin Airport’s Terminal 2 . . . is set to be the last sight many Irish emigrants see as numbers of people leaving the country accelerate in the next few years." B'Jayzus, but there's enough pessimism in that lede sentence to sour milk!!! Be careful what you wish for . . . you might get it! tony

I would be interested in the numbers of people put to work because of the building of this new terminal as well. If you are going to list the retail job numbers, why not list the number of jobs the new terminal created in order to be built in the first place?