14th Nov, 2 from the UK

[Blue_Horseshoe]

Two articles from the The Guardian/The Observer, 14th November 2010

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Polish immigrants, whose arrival in Ireland less than a decade ago increased the workforce by an astonishing 20%, have left in orderly fashion and with no complaints about their treatment. More worrying is the trend for the young Irish to follow them abroad.

](https://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/14/ireland-economic-crisis)

And Fintan O’Toole

[

Yet, if mass emigration does take hold again, it will be a disaster. The haemorrhaging of its youth has, over the centuries, robbed Ireland of much of its social and economic dynamism. The reversal of that flow in the 1990s created enormous confidence. It seemed that Ireland had at last emerged from its bleak history. To lose the confident, well-educated generation that grew up in those optimistic years wouldn’t just be a terrible psychological blow. It would also make nonsense of Ireland’s aspirations to be a dynamic, innovative economy. Can this fate be avoided? Yes – on two conditions.

](https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/14/ireland-economic-crisis-bailout)

Blue Horseshoe

[Bottler]

Yes indeed , Ireland over the last 20 years stemmed the flow of emigration and even invited the world to join the party. When aboard , they were subjected to financial rape on a daily basis and lured into unsustainable debt. Now the victims are boarding the plane while the bankers are protected by the FF hacks in gov. and NAMA protects their Developer friends , all sipping champers in Steven’s Green

Why would anyone want to stay in this country where your future children will end up like street urchins in a Dickens novel.

Get out now before it’s too late !

[ewd3]

They came
they built
they left

[the_edge]

Fintan O’Toole and his trade union friends are part of the problem.