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Sunday 20 September 2020
The deterioration of job quality and extreme working hours are a key driver of emigration for Irish doctors.
The funeral of Joseph Tuohy took place in Dublin this morning.
Partners of Irish citizens can now apply for permission to reside in the country before they travel to Ireland.
Net outward migration of Irish nationals peaked at 29,600 in 2012.
‘I want to move forward but I’m being forced to take a step back and move back home because of the current rental market’, writes Brigid O’Dea.
My sense of humour and rose-tinted glasses are polished and ready, writes Matthew Conway.
Some workhouses cut costs by using a coffin with a hinged door so they could lifted from the grave and reused.
Emigrants don’t really have much choice – unless we want to spend our life looking back wistfully and wondering about what might have been if we’d stayed, writes Philip Lynch.
Concerns have been raised about the lack of graduates finding employment in regional areas.
Thousands of Venezuelans across the world have been waiting on new passports for over a year.
We spoke to Epic, the Irish emigration museum about the Irish lineage behind Che Guevara, Rihanna and the US social activist Mother Jones.
Well if anyone deserves a World’s Best Sister mug…
Over 90,000 Irish-born people live in Australia.
The RSCI has published a survey about the medical workforce in Ireland.
I call it home but it’s a shame that Australia is still very much a work in progress, writes Irish emigrant Philip Lynch.
A woman researching their fate tells us their story.
Between 1845 and 1851 around 1.2 million people left Ireland, a new exhibition looks at some of their stories.
Technology meant I could still chat with my family every day but I was too far away when my brother suddenly got very sick, writes Romy Delaney.
Overwhelmingly, being closer to family is given as the main reason for return.
Irish people wishing to enter New Zealand under a skilled visa will have to earn $48,859 a year.
Moving to Australia at just eleven was daunting but taught me lots about myself, writes Aimee Murphy.
2,000 blank postcards were sent to Irish women across London to take part in the project.
We speak to an actor in the play about its importance.
Have you had a similar experience?
Shortt said he thinks Smalltown will create the ‘water-cooler chat’ that TV series such as Love/Hate and Charlie have in the past.
Irish government is sending in the troops to support the anti-Brexit side, writes historian Bryce Evans, without giving Irish emigrants anything back.
A new exhibition tells the stories of the Irish people.
It’s, like, the law over there? Or something?
Ex-Fianna Fáil councillor Royston Brady says he has no problem with paying for water in his adopted home of Florida.
Barry Johnston says emigrants are exercised about having no say in the kind of country they would one day like to return to.
There has been a steady increase in the number of people overstaying their welcome over the past five years.
There’s something weird about a media and government cheering on a movie about emigration, writes Julien Mercille.
Janet and Eugene found being separated from their children and grandchildren unbearable.
One in six people born in Ireland are still living abroad.
That pale, sickly American butter. Pssh.
The ‘brain exchange’ of both highly-educated emigrants and immigrants remains a significant threat to an Irish recovery according to a new report.
“You can’t walk down a street in Jamaica or Hong Kong or India without hearing someone speaking English”.
It’s all change from four years ago.
Some days I ache for Dublin. I long for its old haunts, restaurants, pubs, faces, places.
Have you gone native or are you coming home?
MORE THAN THREE-quarters of people would support the government looking into the prospect of a four-day work week, according to a new survey.
This means doing the same job for the same salary, but over four days rather than five.
There have been calls for this idea to be explored already and the Four Day Week Ireland campaign today released details on its public attitude survey conducted last month.
Two out of three respondents said a four-day work week is “realistic and achievable” in the medium term.
67% of employers said they support the idea and 46% said it would be “feasible” to trial in their workplace.
“The four-day week, with no loss of pay, offers the potential of a genuinely better future for workers and employers alike,” said Joe O’Connor, director of campaigning with Fórsa trade union.
What may once have seemed like a radical concept is now, for many, a reasonable and rational ambition. The Covid-19 pandemic has further disrupted societal and workplace norms, while illustrating the potential for very different models of work.
So today we’re asking: Would you support a four-day work week?
Poll Results:
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