News that over 2000 people queued in Dublin yesterday for jobs in 3 new Londis Supermarkets provides confirmation (if any was needed) that there is a serious problem with unemployment in this country. I've also recently heard the stories about architects and solictors apparently applying for work in McDonalds and Dominos.
You really have to start wondering about the future when you hear stories like these, and it also makes me wonder how many other people in the coming months will be cutting there losses and quitting Ireland for a better life. I am old enough to remember the immigration to the US and UK in the eighties and early nineties, when whole towns and villages in rural ireland lost almost their entire population between the ages of 18 and 30.
Due to US immigration changes since then the US is no longer a real option for most Irish people, but opportunities in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada will surely have to be more appealing than queueing for low paid jobs in the retail and service sector here at home. I really hope we are not witnessing the beginning of a return to the days of mass emigration from our shores.
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