Irish emigration figures to Britain skyrocket - new statistics show a 25 per cent increase

Things are not great iN Britain either, and lots of British out of work too. The Irish cannot keep running away.

i have no problem with the british,they speak my language,or i speak their language,either way. i blame the british for their past empires,and handing out free passports to countries,who have no-business being in europe,the parasites of our world. i as an irishman living in ireland,can take a lot of stick,but to see that land is being bought in ireland not by the irish,but by foreign investors,what a shame.i would like to buy my own field.its in my blood so to speak.

michael mcgrath, your right about a couple of things you wrote! yes, that rotten bast-ard bertie fuc-ked this country over like no one else! and yes, irish americans cant claim benifit here for some of the same reasons most irish born people cant! im irish, born raised here, working for the last 22 years, paid my taxes and so on, but i do not qualify for benifits either! the reasons! 1, im white 2, i speak english 3, ive been self employed during the resesion, which is now not even worth getting out of bed in the morning for now! but once i was self employed im not entitled to benifit! so im going to colour myself in, go around with my pants hanging of my ass, like every other useless one of the cu-nts, and use someone elses passport and let on i cant speak english, and lets guess, il get a house, car, medical card and the dole and even the paper work filled out for me, just by letting on i cant read or write and that im just another sorry assed cu-nt fresh in from bananna land! it would make you sike here just to see how they can wor it! they should be tied up along with bertie ahern and shot!

It's the same in the UK, and at the rate it's going, the native (loosely speaking) population of both UK and Ireland will be swallowed up by immigrants. I know that in the course of history, native Irish and Anglo-Saxons are probably non-existent, but that was over generations. Dread to think what the population will be by the end of this decade. I'm no racist but I think it's sad when native populations are decimated to the point of extermination. Hopefully, the UK and Irish governments will put the brakes on.

MichaelMcGrath: Great to see the views of the "silent majority of Ireland (over 70%, according to the polls) articulated so well by you and others. Keep it up, and I can retire!

The Irish emigration to UK figure would be three times the figures given as the Irish going to England usually take up work "off the cards" in the hotel, catering and building industries. So here we are in Ireland, landed back into the dismal days of mass emigration due to Bertie Ahern's Fianna Fail government making a decision to enrich their developer and builder pals(I was a Fianna Fail supporter and voter, never again!) Ahern went against EU advice in 2004 to wait seven years, and sent his Employment Minister Mary Harney to Watsaw to seek a million Poles and Eastern Europeans out to come to Ireland as workers immediately on their accession. This was to have all these immigrants working in Ireland to buy the 300,000 houses they were building in the "Ghost Estates" of Ireland today. The Eastern Europeans came in droves with their families, half a million of them here today, and they have nowhere else to go, the most poverty-stricken people in Europe. And this was the primary cause of Ireland's financial crash. Today these people cost the Irish state an estimated two billions a year in social welfare, free education, free health, doctors & hospitals.And for reasons of racial P.C. this fact can never be told - but the Irish People know it , that's why Fianna Fail was demolished never to return. Meanwhile the eastern Europeans are still flooding in for the Irish dole. And Americans, Irish-Americans, do not qualify!

What's the problem? For every Irish person going to Britain there's a Pakistani, Indian, Chinese or Pole settling into Ireland. It's not emigration, it's just restocking. By the mid-century Irish people should be a minority in Ireland, sooner, in view of the way things are going.

To clarify...I was quoting paddyRanger about the whining, not agreeing with him!

There's a lot of difference between occupation and emigration. But having said that,I doubt that the Irish who, as you say whine, would be part of the emigration. The majority of Irish aren't rooted in the past and can see progress being made.

This only exacerbates the financial woes for those left in Ireland. Like a boy holding his finger in the dike to stop a leak. British Dr's see five times as many patients as an American doctor, and 35% of kidney dialysis centers refuse to treat patients over 55 years of age! And this is the reality that Socialist Healthcare is, the seniors are denied access to health care to cut costs. Immigration into the U.S. will soar for the same reasons with Obamacare, thanks to our WEAK Borders. Then who pays for it only YOU!

When jobs leave, it only exacerbates the financial woes for those left in Ireland. Like a boy holding his finger in the dike to stop a leak. In Britain, the availability of health care is more limited. British Dr's see five times as many patients as an American doctor, and 35% of kidney dialysis centers refuse to treat patients over 55 years of age! And this is the reality that Socialist Healthcare is, the seniors are denied access to health care just to cut costs. Immigration into the U.S. will soar for the same reasons with Obamacare, thanks to our WEAK Borders. Then who pays for it? YOU.

Pretty ironic to think there are irish people whining about "Brits out of Ireland" when the UK is getting a new wave of irish emigrating to it...

comon over to the usa, would be no complaints with me.