My Irish Homecoming - We’re back home but so many are leaving

@GeorgeDillon - lol!!! It's a lot like Toronto as well :)

Nice picture! It's nice to see your son Colum holding hands with his new friend. Adorable!

hope everything works out for April and her family,as someone who immigrated to the us almost 18 years ago I would give anything to be able to afford to go home. I miss it everyday.

I have enjoyed this article and April's previous article about her return to Ireland.I look forword to more.I have been living out of Ireland for many years and I welcome articles such as this to keep me aware of the Ireland of today. I really hope that April and her family can "make it" back home and not have to return to the US unless she really wants to .

GeorDillon: oddly and with more than a touch of irony, it would seem Eire is becoming something of a USA in miniature. May God have mercy on your souls. :)

As an Irish-American, I keep dreaming about going home to my roots! I'd gladly immigrate to Ireland if it were possible! As for the rain, I live in SE Texas where all we do is pray for it since last years drought!

I like rain, but just enough of it to keep everything green so I don't have to water the flowers and shrubs. I wouldn't do well in the Pacific NW of the U.S. or any place where it rained often. I want to see sun and blue skies when I look out the windows in our big sun room. It's good to know that you're adjusting and enjoying being back in Ireland. Good for you.

I wouldn't share the writer's concern about Emigration from Ireland. The great thing about Ireland is that even as the young Irish are leaving to go elsewhere there are streams of Arabs, Azeris, Armenians, Burundis, Bangladeshis, Borneans etc crowding into the island to take their places. It's not depopulation, it's repopulation! Ireland is real interesting now, with all those ethnic groups milling around, some of them even working. It's just like an airport terminal.

Could an editor please work on this article a bit? "Very handy if your starting out in life" should be "Very handy if you're starting out in life" and "more real estate agents today so will see" should be "more real estate agents today so we'll see". I stopped reading at that point.

We're obsessed about the rain because a decent summer only lasts a week!!

I have been to Ireland a lot. I'm from Boston Ma and we were all living in the same house all cousins and we after retirement moved to central florid and we get a lot of rain as well. I like it, I could stay in a nice note and GALWAY BAY HOTeL and stay on the porch and love it I would love to file for duel citizenship but can not find a record of birth for my granny