Year ends with emigration from Ireland highest since Famine times

Mrs Thatcher threat to the irish, explain?

WoundedKnee - totally agree with you on this one. Well said. Many people cannot see this, especially back inIreland among the liberal classes and those who have no experience of the world abroad. PS See, we do agree on some things and maybe I am not such a bad fellow after all. :). Happy New Year!

I will certainly be demanding of any Irish tourism or political spokesperson who tries to sell The Gathering to me that they explain why Irish people are being encouraged to emigrate even while the Irish ruling class imports thousands of foreign workers every month. I urge other Irish Americans who are worried about the survival of Irish nationality to raise this matter whenever the Irish conmen try to sell them some line about The Gathering. In fact the day is fast approaching when anyone using the name Ireland to sell that country will risk breaking truth in advertizing laws. It won't be Ireland, and the people who live there won't be Irish, no more than the people who live in Minneapolis are Lakota Sioux.

Uninformed readers may have given little credence to my repeated prediction (one shared by many others) that by mid-century the Doomsday for Irish nationality will have been reached. That's when the Irish will have become just one more ethnic group in their ancient homeland. After that there is no going back, no more than the Comanche can today march into Dallas and claim their ancient birthright, the lands their forefathers lived in and loved for countless generations. Anyone analyzing the flow of demographic data out of Ireland must now see it as a cast-iron certainty. The young Irish leave, while young men and women of 100 nationalities stream in. And like all young men and women, they procreate. Irish Americans need to engage with this issue, for it represents a real and present danger to our heritage. It's a far greater threat to the Irish nation than Margaret Thatcher ever was. Irish nationality is in the process of being wiped out from among the nations of the world. And for what?

at the present rate of emigration in both NI & ROI, in 5 yrs, SF may realise their UI & we alone, will mean exactly that, the will of the minority to trump democracy

There is still room for many more Irish immigrants in Australia; you are most welcome here and there and you will not freeze your bits off!

Actually the United States is absorbing the largest number of immigrants, numbering more than 17,143 versus 16,000 for Britain. Temporary work permits have a way of evolving into more permanent forms of resident status over time.

OLovely - scapegoating is never good. Which 'bankers'? The tellers? Assistant managers, managers, AVP's perhaps? Clerks? Processors? Admins? Is everyone employed by a financial institution guilty by association?

Oh oh the natives are deserting the sinking ship and the English can't be blamed! Independence has proved conclusively that Ireland is a country that can't run itself. I don't know anyone with a trade or in college who does not intend to leave as soon as they can. The country is drowning in incompetence and political stupidity while managing to have the highest paid politicians in the world. We should vote to be invaded.

"We don't want them, ye have them but let them home for the Gathering, 2013, we need their money." I'm sure most people can say the same of the foreign Irish immigrants now living on their lands.

Don't let the trolls distract you: it's our homegrown and incompetent politicians and bankers who are to blame for our economic difficulties, not foreign immigrants.

87,000 people immigrated from Ireland in the year to April 2012.That is the equivalent of every man, women and child in South Tipperary leaving Ireland in 1 year. The figure since then has been higher and more to follow. And the Irish Government say their policies have stopped the rise of unemployment.Well if you consider forced immigration a policy, the Irish Government have being very successful. We don't want them, ye have them but let them home for the Gathering, 2013, we need their money.

We are losing them from the top of the pile and replacing them with foreigners from the bottom of the pile.

Easpa an Ghaeilge mar is gnach. Speaking of emmigration, looks like the Irish language emmigrated away from the Best of Irish Central. Not that this news service ever even made the feeblest of attempts to post even one article in it.

Yet there is still about 30,000 annual mass immigration into Ireland from the Third Worldand most Africans , for instance, are remaining in Ireland for the Social Welfare.