Emigration again - massive crowd as Irish work abroad jobs expos illustrate the truth

bunclogher1: "It will fade fast if the Country is run by people with no personality". Do you mean the Eastern Europeans? I guess you're right. Whenever I go to Ireland I am struck by how depressed and dull those people seem. All they can do is shuffle around the stores looking for cheap clothing and food. B-O-R-I-N-G!

MNC's pay only 12% corporation tax on 'declared' repatriated profits. Irish workers pay 40% income tax on moderate incomes. Current Irish government policy is to grant-aid employers to hire staff, thereby using public taxation to subsidise private labour costs, i.e. transferring social welfare expenditure to private industry. Economics of the madhouse indeed! There is such a thing as distributive justice. The scale of inequality in the world manifests as violence, war and famine. Renounce the profit motive, and become real Christians.

people come from all over the world to visit ireland for the landscape and ITS PEOPLE, It will fade fast if the Country is run by people with no personality. THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE PUT ON TRIAL FOR THIS OUTRAGE OF EMIGRATION

An after thought; We know who destroyed this country but there has been no Madoff solution for us. In order to get 6 YEARS IN JAIL IN IRELAND you need to be caught smuggling GARLIC from China. I kid you not!!

My perception of life here in Ireland was perplexing, I became aware of the Fine Gael party planning a celebration of their achievements in government at the same time as a work abroad fair in Cork drew such crowds that a radio announcement nation wide had to warn non ticket holders to stay away due to the inability of the fair to cope with the crowds. On the RTE News a vox pop, threw up two 45/50 year olds demonstrating their devastation at losing their jobs. One man would have drawn a tear from a stone as he fought to speak while choking back his tears. So the anger, frustration and sense of betrayal here is palpable and fed by the daily visions of depressed workers, broken hearted parents and the noise of politicians. There is a small comfort - SKYPE- which allows contact verbal and visual with the departed parents,children with children & parents.

was'nt the greed of american companys that ruined ireland but the greed of a few irish capitalists when irish banks were making profits??they were private companys when the went bust the irish taxer bailed them out,another 2,500 sacked by AIB this week if companys go belly up in the states thats capitalism when it happens in ireland the taxpayer will pay for that.with extra taxes since the economy went bang i'm paying 3 extra weeks a year in taxes= lost wages,want insurance 2% extra per cover for sean quinns insurance empire,want to turn on a light fill up the car switch on the heating green tax for that don't forget the 23% vat on top of that also need to go to the doctor 50euro go to the hospital without being sent by the doc 100 euro was'nt america that fecked up this country just plain irish greed encouraged by politicans that took early retirment on 150k a year by the way pension age for me increased to 68 from 65 this year also paying 52 cent in the euro tax at an earlier time if a banker told the cops in the us they were'nt getting the passwords for the laptop files what held vital info what would happen in ireland a shrug of the irish states shoulders waiting for irish bankers to be jailed [hahaha] took 14 years to get john gilligans money for gods sake.....

US companies directly employ over 90,000 people,or 70% of the total numbers employed by multinationals in Ireland.A study just completed by Enterprise Ireland reveals that more than 55,000 American people are now employed by Irish companies in the US.It's not all one way traffic.Irish companies do employ Americans.

For what it is worth, the Irish for short or long term are very welcome in Australia. Jobs are plentiful, the weather is great, and the lifestlye very comfortable. If you want to really challenge yourself take on a mining job, it may set you up for life if you can handle remote locations.

@Murph46: I have not evaded anything. You have demonstrated again and again that you cannot work out the simplest of things within law.

@Murph46: Traitorous Irish Politicians could give the subsidies to the Irish and let them employ the yanks for a change..........People like you don't recognise the Irish Constitution and the need to be loyal.

The fact is that Ireland will never solve its unemployment problem as long as it keeps a Wide Open Door policy for foreign migrant labor. Create a 100.000 jobs, and double that number of new foreign migrants will show up. Even today, as young Irish leave thru one door at Dublin Airport, countless Pakistanis, Poles, Indians, Chinese etc swarm in thru the other door. Irish workers are condemned forever to compete against cheap EU and non EU labor. There is to all purposes an infinite supply of cheap labor available to the Irish boss class. I don't have a lot of sympathy for these parents. By acquiescing to the globalization of Ireland, Irish parents have effectively told their sons and daughters to go to hell, go find a life elsewhere. IRELAND INC. doesn't need its young, it can find get better and definitely cheaper workers from the hundreds of millions available and clamoring to settle Ireland.

Remember, the people who brought Mass Immigration to Ireland also brought Mass Emigration. By the middle of this century the Irish will be a minority in their own homeland, in fact sooner, judging by the way things are going.

@Murph46: They come to Ireland for easy money and tax breaks from the traitors in Dail Eireann but you can't figure that out..........While you think about the problem you could also try to explain why 355,000 people have emigrated from Ireland in the last 6 years as reported on this site.

@Murph46: Asset stripping a country and keeping the people in servitude is not an investment..............Maybe you should go and read the rules of the world before you expose your lack of skills on the internet.

As the old ballads go, here am I in bondage, as an immigrant I never considered myself in bondage, in Ireland 50 & 60s was real bondage for me. Patriotic reality is great when the country has so much resources and brains, with few free loaders, Ireland can never compete as a free independant republic. It has to be a COMPETIVE part of the global econmy. Not sit back sulking what the corporations did to us victims.Irelands best export was always the hardest, brightest workers.