Is Ireland sinking again? 87,000 emigrate and unemployment still 14.6 percent

Freeman: "I should think the EU is picking up the tab". Yes, you should think, but you also should do a little research. If you did you would know that the only ones who pick up the tab for the vast ranges of public services and subsidies that foreign migrants receive in Ireland are the Irish tax-payer. Either b y paying taxes or by borrowing abroad, which will have to be repaid. OK, there are some foreign migrants who pay taxes, but the majority of foreign migrants are takers not givers as regards public spending, since they are on minimum wage and bring large families, even grandparents. You really should study what's going on in Ireland, Freeman, you sound very uninformed.

Freeman: "I should think the EU is picking up the tab". Yes, you should think, but you also should do a little research. If you did you would know that the only ones who pick up the tab for the vast ranges of public services and subsidies that foreign migrants receive in Ireland are the Irish tax-payer. Either b y paying taxes or by borrowing abroad, which will have to be repaid. OK, there are some foreign migrants who pay taxes, but the majority of foreign migrants are takers not givers as regards public spending, since they are on minimum wage and bring large families, even grandparents. You really should study what's going on in Ireland, Freeman, you sound very uninformed.

Freeman: "I should think the EU is picking up the tab". Yes, you should think, but you also should do a little research. If you did you would know that the only ones who pick up the tab for the vast ranges of public services and subsidies that foreign migrants receive in Ireland are the Irish tax-payer. Either b y paying taxes or by borrowing abroad, which will have to be repaid. OK, there are some foreign migrants who pay taxes, but the majority of foreign migrants are takers not givers as regards public spending, since they are on minimum wage and bring large families, even grandparents. You really should study what's going on in Ireland, Freeman, you sound very uninformed.

Freeman: "I should think the EU is picking up the tab". Yes, you should think, but you also should do a little research. If you did you would know that the only ones who pick up the tab for the vast ranges of public services and subsidies that foreign migrants receive in Ireland are the Irish tax-payer. Either b y paying taxes or by borrowing abroad, which will have to be repaid. OK, there are some foreign migrants who pay taxes, but the majority of foreign migrants are takers not givers as regards public spending, since they are on minimum wage and bring large families, even grandparents. You really should study what's going on in Ireland, Freeman, you sound very uninformed.

Freeman: "I should think the EU is picking up the tab". Yes, you should think, but you also should do a little research. If you did you would know that the only ones who pick up the tab for the vast ranges of public services and subsidies that foreign migrants receive in Ireland are the Irish tax-payer. Either b y paying taxes or by borrowing abroad, which will have to be repaid. OK, there are some foreign migrants who pay taxes, but the majority of foreign migrants are takers not givers as regards public spending, since they are on minimum wage and bring large families, even grandparents. You really should study what's going on in Ireland, Freeman, you sound very uninformed.

Freeman: "I should think the EU is picking up the tab". Yes, you should think, but you also should do a little research. If you did you would know that the only ones who pick up the tab for the vast ranges of public services and subsidies that foreign migrants receive in Ireland are the Irish tax-payer. Either b y paying taxes or by borrowing abroad, which will have to be repaid. OK, there are some foreign migrants who pay taxes, but the majority of foreign migrants are takers not givers as regards public spending, since they are on minimum wage and bring large families, even grandparents. You really should study what's going on in Ireland, Freeman, you sound very uninformed.

Freeman: "I should think the EU is picking up the tab". Yes, you should think, but you also should do a little research. If you did you would know that the only ones who pick up the tab for the vast ranges of public services and subsidies that foreign migrants receive in Ireland are the Irish tax-payer. Either b y paying taxes or by borrowing abroad, which will have to be repaid. OK, there are some foreign migrants who pay taxes, but the majority of foreign migrants are takers not givers as regards public spending, since they are on minimum wage and bring large families, even grandparents. You really should study what's going on in Ireland, Freeman, you sound very uninformed.

Freeman: "I should think the EU is picking up the tab". Yes, you should think, but you also should do a little research. If you did you would know that the only ones who pick up the tab for the vast ranges of public services and subsidies that foreign migrants receive in Ireland are the Irish tax-payer. Either b y paying taxes or by borrowing abroad, which will have to be repaid. OK, there are some foreign migrants who pay taxes, but the majority of foreign migrants are takers not givers as regards public spending, since they are on minimum wage and bring large families, even grandparents. You really should study what's going on in Ireland, Freeman, you sound very uninformed.

Freeman: "I should think the EU is picking up the tab". Yes, you should think, but you also should do a little research. If you did you would know that the only ones who pick up the tab for the vast ranges of public services and subsidies that foreign migrants receive in Ireland are the Irish tax-payer. Either b y paying taxes or by borrowing abroad, which will have to be repaid. OK, there are some foreign migrants who pay taxes, but the majority of foreign migrants are takers not givers as regards public spending, since they are on minimum wage and bring large families, even grandparents. You really should study what's going on in Ireland, Freeman, you sound very uninformed.

Ron: Oz land's economy is not looking to good these days. The Irish that are considering moving there, may wnat to reconsider.

You bet the country is going down. And this time for good thanks to those who think the government owes them a living and the few smart people who recognize the truth and are moving on to better loves in better and more honest countries. Pretty soon the Social welfare roles will stretch across a deserted land.

Independent Ireland is a mis-managed kip that started to slide downhill in 1922. Anyone who can get out heads to the airport or the ferry. If you talk to any teenager these days, most of them plan on the basis that when they pass their final exams they will be leaving the country. The place is such a political farce the only people who want to live here are freeloaders like Bishops, TD's and social welfare cheats.

Well, I hope that many of that 87,000 are coming down under to Australia. We need as many Europeans that we can get here to offset the flow of illegal migrants from God knows where. They have no IDs, and no idea what they're looking for except handouts from the social security system. Bring down the Paddies! They had a large part in creating this country in the first place.

STEVENSTAR The area I work in is heavily populated by EU migrants mostly Poles working in construction there have been more issues with them lowering the wage rate by working for minimum wage. I have no issue with economic migrants but there have to be limits but never at the cost of the traditional "in you go" for the Irish as significant sections of Liverpool Social Services, Social Care and NHS nursing staff are recruited from the Irish students who study here and decide to stay. I've never been a big EU fan and would not be opposed to both the UK and Ireland picking up our ball and telling them to jog on.

Searlit: be careful, some would call that an anti-semitic statement. Stevenstar: your Poles are double dippin, collecting in Poland and Ireland. It hurts Irish Americans to see you making the same mistakes we made-- Articles that slander the Church are welcome here but when I make a right wing red neck statement--- it gets taken off.