New Facebook group angers Irish emigrants, says victims of “brain drain” are not welcome home – POLL

There is nothing special or courage needed to buy an Airline ticket

No body wants these travelling drunken Celtic Tiger spoiled Cub's they are no loss or gain to any country

It takes a lot of courage and spirit of adventure to emigrate. Their critics are will shut up when the emigrants send money back to Ireland.

As long as they're working and not robbing banks, economic refugees should receive a welcome, here and back home (I hope they can return home, with pockets jingling, as they used to say).

Smyrnian: "Menial jobs"??? Americans don't look down on jobs like janitor, security guard, hotel receptionist, retail, waiter, barman, truck driver etc etc. as "menial". They're decent honorable ways to make a buck, and millions of good Americans raise families thru those jobs. But according to you the Irish are too good for that kind of work. So the Irish think they're better than us? Well Excuse Me! A nickel looking down on a quarter!

IrishRyan: What you say is nonsense. If there were no jobs in Ireland why are people streaming into Ireland from all over the world? I know a lot of them are going for the welfare, but a lot are looking to work. I am a regular visitor to Ireland. Whenever I stay in an Irish hotel I see no Irish person working there, in bar, reception, restaurant or wherever. I might as well be in Moldova. When I go shopping, particularly to the Pennys department store, nearly all the sales clerks are foreign, and all of the security guards (why are there so many?) are foreign migrants. And most of these are not even EU, they look like Indians or Paks. I took a long-distance bus last time and the driver seemed to be Polish. Even when the plane from Newark arrives at Dublin Airport and the door opens, the first voice you hear welcoming you to Dublin and telling you where to go pick up your bag is an African or a Russian. So there's no Irish person smart enough to be able to grab a microphone and give that message? There are lots of jobs in Ireland. The ironic thing is that the ones who leave Ireland wind up doing the very same jobs that they turned down when they were at home, sometimes even worse. Those people who left Ireland were perfectly entitled to do so, but I can see where that Facebook page is coming from--the Irish are like tumbleweed, they are blown everywhere and have no roots.

That's a bit like the inmates of a lunatic asylum telling those who've made it out that they can't come back in.

This is a disgraceful facebook page, one o this has very very little support in ireland. Dont these people realize that theres NO JOBS in ireland? Maybe the people who made this facebook page were lucky enough to get a job but alot of others werent so lucky. Unemployment is 14% in ireland, now that would be ALOT higher if people didnt use the brains in their heads and moved abroad to find work, it would be around the same levels as Spain and Greece. The person who made this facebook page should be ashamed of themselves, you dont represent ireland, you may think you do but you certainly dont. My two cousins left for Australia, they work as motor mechanics. They searched for a very long time for work but just couldnt find any, so instead of draining the benefits system here, they took the courage to LEAVE THEIR HOME AND FAMILIES and relocate to austraila. Do you think that was easy for them to do? No. Any person, irish or of irish heritage, WILL be welcomed back to Ireland.

This Facebook group has a point. There is something unseemly about the way the Irish so thoughtlessly abandon their country. We had high unemployment here a couple years back--don't remember huge numbers of Americans emigrating! Anyway, the whole unemployment argument is bogus--there are lots of jobs in Ireland.

Begrudge much!