[johnners2981]

Originally Posted by Doc Ruby

Another low postcount poster with a bellyful of bile about Irish people.

I don't see what their postcount has to do with anything

[Ellis Dee]

Originally Posted by muracan

Am I the only one to be fed up to the back teeth of all this emigration talk.

We have free media in Ireland. Not as free as they should be, in my opinion, but free nevertheless.

They report on emigration because it is happening. You don't have to read the articles about emigration, but it is a subject that touches the lives of many people in Ireland and is of interest to them.

Just as I don't get into a tizzy every time someone writes an article or makes a programme about, say, golf - something that doesn't interest me in the slightest other than causing a great amount of wonder in me that men make so much ado about playing with their small balls - you would probably be a lot less stressed out if you learned to ignore discussions of matters that don't interest you.

[woodoo]

If you don't like it why don't you just leave...

[Doc Ruby]

Originally Posted by johnners2981

I don't see what their postcount has to do with anything

Note the way your post and the other was thanked Dr Expired there, who opined that "soo many Irish people died in the famine ... because the Irish are a weak race".

Entirely besides the halfwitted dialling up the stupid to eleven this opinion entails, that would be an example of what I'm talking about. Maybe not the case here, but it pays to keep an eye out for these types.

Originally Posted by Woodsocks

Another newbie member with over 1600 posts. Your a bit of a troll me thinks

I must be either a really good or a really bad troll so, as I've more thanks than posts.

[Freddie59]

Originally Posted by muracan

Am I the only one to be fed up to the back teeth of all this emigration talk.

Let's face it, we are a nation of emigrants,this is just the latest cycle.

It's nothing new 1840s,1950s,1980s and now.....we all have returned emigrants in the family!

Why are our nurses emigrating when many of our health care workers are Asian?
Why are there still so many Eastern europeans working in the hospitality sectors, factory operatives, fishermen and "menial" jobs....surely we should have sent them all home by now and replaced them with homegrown labour?

I'll tell you why, because without those people this country would be in a much more sorry state than it is today.The only reason they have their jobs is because Paddy wouldn't do them!They work here because they get high wages relative to home.I know that our cost of living is high here but so are welfare rates in comparison to their countries.

Many people already "migrated" within this country ....away from these jobs to work in construction for example (boasting about getting 2.50 euro per block layed)!
I have been unemployed, I know the frustration of not being able to get a job.I went from being well paid,to jobseekers.I now work a 3 day week( hopefully will get to 5) and have started a mini-business. You have to diversify, adapt and change your attitude...it's not easy .

After the 8o's recession the emigrants returned, pockets full of cash and helped to fuel the boom.They drove everything up and looked down on "the fools" who stayed put who paid the high taxes and kept the light burning in the window.

The same will happen again this time, just wait and see.

Why is it that the Irish will do the menial jobs when they emigrate and not at home?

We must all take a good look in the mirror and see the failures of our ways.

WE got ourselves into this mess and ONLY WE can get us out of it!

There will always be emigrants ,it's part of what we are!

What complete and utter anti-Irish drivel. I hope you'e always this smug. Our daughter emigrated. Because she COULD NOT get a job after being made redundant. Thankfully she is only in the UK, and is in employment there with a multinational. And WTF do you class as 'menial' BTW?

And what's the WE sh!t about? Bankers, developers, and a greedy corrupt Government got us into it. We could get ourselves out of it toomorrow by taking some very hard decisions. But nooooooo. That will never happen. Now - crawl back under that rock.