Irish emigration at highest point since Famine -- 3,000 leaving per month

@Blythebay, With your enthusiastic support for Muslims in Ireland, it is telling that the late Adam Gadahn shared your enthusiam in his correspondences with Osama Bin Laden and thought Ireland was a great spot for Muslim extremism to flourish. I hope you enjoy the reaping as much as the sowing. This is JMO and of course, I am not from Ireland. I just think it's a lovely country.

Ireland has many immigrants from India and Africa Continent who are excellent additions to the country. It is wrong for Americans to portray them as being on the dole. You have no proof of that. Furthermore, it is Americans pushing for the E3 visa and for amnesty for illegal Irish immigrants in the US who went there in the 80s and 90s.

Seanmor, You are 100 percent right! The Irish of your generation who emigrated to the US all served in the US military and were a credit to both nations. The Irish who came in here in droves in the 80's and 90's had huge chips on their shoulders and felt a sense of entitlement, yet; we were stil successful in helping them get "Green Cards". As soon as the Celtic Tiger began roaring they all left with those Green cards in their pocket. Now many of them want to come back. Is that fair?

Brenn69 I fear you maybe beating your head of a brick-wall regarding Irish Central and the other established Irish media and indeed Irish politicians with there mind boggling reference to the F-word. They have been using the word famine instead of Genocide since shortly after the potato blight struct. Perhaps some day they might care read some history on the subject and have a good look at the census records before and after the Genocide instead of looking back on what the last fela wrote. An excellent Facebook page exsists called Irish Holocaust-Push to Educate the Facts, check it out if your interested.

"byethebuttinski just likes to see her name in the posts!" ---Murph, looks like you have come to the same conclusion as me. The combination of anti-Americanism, half-truths and self-righteous ignorance is a give away. She also posted under a woman's name for a while, can't remember it.

This is the 3rd time this week I've seen the word "Famine" capitalised in a headline on IrishCentral.com. It's becoming depressing, and tedious. If even the Irish are keeping the myth alive that there ever was a famine, rather than a potato blight mixed with homelessness and disease and neglect and genocidal tendencies, then how are we to change the perception the world has of the Irish: i.e. that we were too dumb and drunk to do anything but grow potatoes. There never was a famine, dammit! Get it right!

There is a report that most are leaving to get away from the insane rants of byethebay!

Kilkenny: Most Poles are by n means bad people, and neither are the Chinese who live in the Irish state. But immigrants feom the Indian sub-cntinent and Africa often wind up 'one the dole' and are an enormous burder to the Irish taxpayers. As for Irish immigrants to to U.S., In the late 60s, at different times I shared my apartment with a Kerryman and a Clareman, both of whom were Vietnam veterans. Later a Kilkennyman moved in, after serving almost 2 years as a U.S. soldier in Germany. All these young Irishmen were loyal, law-abiding , tax-paying residents who were a credit to Ireland and to their adopted country.

Must be that your local taxes are going up ... You all are welcome in the USA as you will be displacing those meskins headed south.

Of course it would be very difficult for Americans to understand peaceful cooperation in Ireland since they tried for so many years to support terrorism. Muslims in Ireland are very peaceful members of Irish society and we're very happy they're in Ireland. With all the talk in the US about the Muslim Threat, of course Americans would have difficulty understanding the concept.

Americans and their puerile attempts at name calling, laughable, ha, ha.

byethebuttinski just likes to see her name in the posts!

Muslims are peace loving people? I thought Muslims were a religious population. Very devote Muslims might not like Irish traditions. Tell those hen parties to cover up, no homosexuals, no pubs, but it will solve the problem of having to put up with tourists.

Laughable to see the self proclaimed hypenated Americans assessing emigrants from Ireland vis a vis residents of Ireland. They've never even lived in Ireland. Delusional again.

Americans are always talking about the Muslim threat, another example of their continued bigotry. Muslims are peace loving people welcomed in Ireland.