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Irish parents urge their children to leave - emigration masks unemployment disaster

Record joblessness and hard times still ahead

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CATHY HAYES,
IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 8:11 AM
Updated Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 11:40 AM

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Suitcase in hand at Dublin Airport - mass emigration is decrease Ireland's unemployment numbers
Suitcase in hand at Dublin Airport - mass emigration is decrease Ireland's unemployment numbers
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Ireland's economic hard times are far from over for the record number of young people who are faced with ongoing joblessness.

Speaking to a Bloomberg reporter this week, Irish father Anthony Roche revealed that he has urged his unemployed son to emigrate to Australia to escape the country’s economic collapse.

'I’ve seen the good times and the bad and these are the worst,' Roche, 45, who now works one or two days a week after he closed his business laying floors for bars and restaurants 18 months ago, told Bloomberg. 'There are plenty of people there to work, but there isn’t any work out there. That’s why people are leaving these shores again.'

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Although Ireland's economy is beginning to recover 15 months after the banking bailout, the Irish government acknowledges the country is still in the midst of the worst economic crisis since World War II.

With the unemployment rate at a towering 14.2 percent, close to the highest level since the 1980s, only Spain and Greece now have higher jobless figures in the euro region.

'Unemployment is a huge problem for Ireland,' Michael O’Sullivan, head of portfolio strategy at Credit Suisse Private Banking in London told Bloomberg. 'Ireland has the additional strait- jacket of the euro-zone austerity mantra, which for Ireland may have the short-term effect of creating lots of unemployment.'

Meanwhile, Irish emigration rose to the highest level since the 19th century in the 12 months ending in April 2011, with about 76,400 people leaving Ireland during the period, according to the Central Statistics Office.

Irish Prime minister Enda Kenny was elected with a mandate to fix Ireland’s jobs crisis, but the pace of change has been too slow for many. 'Many of the unemployed are among our most talented and are facing a dole queue or emigration,' Kenny said during a speech in Cork on February 3. 'I, and the rest of cabinet, am working day and night to get them into work,' he added.

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sirpeter | Feb 10, 2012, 06:59 PM EST
Caoimhin1937.Which part of Ireland was sold to Germany?.I have land deeds in my possession to say otherwise on my bit of Ireland.I know plenty of Irish people who have deeds to property and land.So we can't leave the EU? Yes we can!! So we can't default on debts? Yes we can!! That's doesn't sound like we are owned at all.Fiscal union with EU member states might actually be good for Ireland.Then again it might not.But it's worth a try.By the way it's Slán leat.You left out the fada.There you go!!a á b c d e é f g h i í l m n o ó p r s t u ú.Ctrl Alt the letter.

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timbobdennehy | Feb 10, 2012, 08:58 AM EST
those who have money leave.everyone else stays.

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IrelandNorth | Feb 10, 2012, 06:27 AM EST
Caomhighin1937! The population of Ireland as a whole comfortably exceeded 8m in the mid-1800's, when Black '47 kicked-in. The famine did a belated population cull with a little help of British Government laissex-faire capitalism that suited their imperial intentions. X hectares of land divided by y amount of tenants = z amount of estate.

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esatdigiwank | Feb 09, 2012, 12:11 PM EST
"'Many of the unemployed are among our most talented and are facing a dole queue or emigration,' Kenny said during a speech in Cork on February 3." Still Enda, it must make it an easier country for you lot to govern when there are less Irish to rule over, those voters remaining being the mediocre/less average. 75,000 less by the end of 2012, This Govt has no Mandate any longer.

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Caoimhin1937 | Feb 09, 2012, 06:47 AM EST
Dear Sir Peter, you must have been dreaming that this was your country. When did you have this dream? This country was sold to the banksters and the Fourth reich when you were asleep. Slan leat.

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sirpeter | Feb 08, 2012, 09:12 PM EST
Caoimhin1937.Don't annoy me with stupidity.You really don't want to do that.I'll make your comments go belly up.This is your first post and it's a pretty dumb one.Try and do better.Your first sentence is one of an idiot.Don't do it again.Oh! Welcome to IC.Been in your 70's is no excuse for stupidity.This is my country.Just listen to Irish people.

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sirpeter | Feb 08, 2012, 08:52 PM EST
Georgie Boy If you are the smarts of America been an Irish ancestral export yourself.Which country is the smart one then.hahahaha.

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Caoimhin1937 | Feb 08, 2012, 04:46 PM EST
The population of Ireland can only facilitate 4.5 mn people at best. After that it goes belly up. I have travelled in the north of Ireland for the last two months and I think the Republic should join them if they will take us. And I consider myself an ex Shinner until I travelled through the north.

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ciaradexy | Feb 08, 2012, 03:28 PM EST
Ah George, always the comedian! Im here cos I have a job. Youre not here cos you have nothing we want or need!

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reinkefj | Feb 08, 2012, 01:22 PM EST
I think that a "dole queue" is a symptom of the problem. If the corporate tax was low, say 10%, then corporations would be falling over themselves to HQ in Ireland. Then, if gold and silver "punts" --- call them medallions, souvenirs, or commemoratives --- were minted, you'd have a global interest in buying the "Leprechaun's gold". The problem is always the Gooferement!

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GeorgeDillon | Feb 08, 2012, 12:54 PM EST
Ireland exports its smart and go-ahead young people while mediocrities like curopeter and curdexy stay on.

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Murph46 | Feb 08, 2012, 12:37 PM EST
Sad plight! Wish him well!

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sirpeter | Feb 08, 2012, 11:22 AM EST
Read Animal Farm by George Orwell."Everybody is equal,but some people are more equal than others"That's about sums it up Cillowen.

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cillowen | Feb 08, 2012, 10:42 AM EST
at least those "wakings" are not a feature any more. Still can't understand why their leaders are not serving years in gaol.

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sirpeter | Feb 08, 2012, 08:54 AM EST
Shouldn't that headline read "Irish parent urge son to leave"Is that him going in the picture?

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