# emigration - Monday 16 May, 2022
# Out Of Here
The problem is not unique to Ireland but there are a lot of push factors in the Irish healthcare system, according to staff The situation is radically different in other countries, say nurses, doctors and physios who have left Ireland " I was in a theatre all day with one surgeon and I worked every day with him for a year and he didn’t know my name."
# emigration - Monday 31 January, 2022
# Emigration
Young doctors are leaving Ireland for Australia for a better work-life balance, better training opportunities, and a better working environment. There were 391 visa applications granted to Irish doctors last year - an increase of 59 visas, despite pandemic travel restrictions in place. Australia's retention policies for healthcare workers has been praised as something Ireland can learn from.
# emigration - Tuesday 14 September, 2021
# GoodInformation
# GoodInformation
The Good Information Project wants to hear your experience of migration, living abroad for work or study – or coming to Ireland to build a new life.
# emigration - Thursday 2 January, 2020
# Voices
# Voices
The deterioration of job quality and extreme working hours are a key driver of emigration for Irish doctors.
# emigration - Friday 27 September, 2019
# Joseph Tuohy
# Joseph Tuohy
The funeral of Joseph Tuohy took place in Dublin this morning.
# emigration - Monday 19 August, 2019
# Emigration
# Emigration
Partners of Irish citizens can now apply for permission to reside in the country before they travel to Ireland.
# emigration - Tuesday 28 August, 2018
# Emigration
# Emigration
Net outward migration of Irish nationals peaked at 29,600 in 2012.
# emigration - Friday 10 August, 2018
# Opinion
# Opinion
‘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.
# emigration - Saturday 2 June, 2018
My sense of humour and rose-tinted glasses are polished and ready, writes Matthew Conway.
# emigration - Saturday 19 May, 2018
# History
# History
Some workhouses cut costs by using a coffin with a hinged door so they could lifted from the grave and reused.
# emigration - Sunday 1 April, 2018
# Column
# Column
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.
# emigration - Friday 19 January, 2018
# Job Fairy
# Job Fairy
Concerns have been raised about the lack of graduates finding employment in regional areas.
# emigration - Saturday 13 January, 2018
# Fear
# Fear
Thousands of Venezuelans across the world have been waiting on new passports for over a year.
# emigration - Monday 25 December, 2017
# Ché Mo Laoch
# Ché Mo Laoch
We spoke to Epic, the Irish emigration museum about the Irish lineage behind Che Guevara, Rihanna and the US social activist Mother Jones.
# emigration - Saturday 9 December, 2017
# Hangover Cure
From The Daily Edge
# Hangover Cure
Well if anyone deserves a World’s Best Sister mug…
# emigration - Tuesday 10 October, 2017
# Emigration
# Emigration
Over 90,000 Irish-born people live in Australia.
# emigration - Tuesday 26 September, 2017
# RSCI
# RSCI
The RSCI has published a survey about the medical workforce in Ireland.
# emigration - Friday 7 July, 2017
# Column
# Column
I call it home but it’s a shame that Australia is still very much a work in progress, writes Irish emigrant Philip Lynch.
# emigration - Sunday 18 June, 2017
# Mayo Orphan Girls
# Mayo Orphan Girls
A woman researching their fate tells us their story.
# emigration - Sunday 4 June, 2017
# Emigration
# Emigration
Between 1845 and 1851 around 1.2 million people left Ireland, a new exhibition looks at some of their stories.
# emigration - Saturday 3 June, 2017
# Missing You
# Missing You
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.
# emigration - Wednesday 3 May, 2017
# Been So Long Now
# Been So Long Now
Overwhelmingly, being closer to family is given as the main reason for return.
# emigration - Wednesday 19 April, 2017
# Verified By Visa
# Verified By Visa
Irish people wishing to enter New Zealand under a skilled visa will have to earn $48,859 a year.
# emigration - Sunday 2 April, 2017
# Column
# Column
Moving to Australia at just eleven was daunting but taught me lots about myself, writes Aimee Murphy.
# emigration - Wednesday 25 January, 2017
# Cailíní Secret
# Cailíní Secret
2,000 blank postcards were sent to Irish women across London to take part in the project.
# emigration - Saturday 5 November, 2016
# Kings Of Kilburn
# Kings Of Kilburn
We speak to an actor in the play about its importance.
# emigration - Wednesday 5 October, 2016
# No Irish Here
# No Irish Here
Have you had a similar experience?
# emigration - Wednesday 31 August, 2016
# Smalltown
# Smalltown
Shortt said he thinks Smalltown will create the ‘water-cooler chat’ that TV series such as Love/Hate and Charlie have in the past.
# emigration - Sunday 5 June, 2016
# Opinion
# Opinion
Irish government is sending in the troops to support the anti-Brexit side, writes historian Bryce Evans, without giving Irish emigrants anything back.
# emigration - Saturday 30 April, 2016
# Emigration
# Emigration
A new exhibition tells the stories of the Irish people.
# emigration - Sunday 6 March, 2016
# Irish Abroad
From The Daily Edge
# Irish Abroad
It’s, like, the law over there? Or something?
# emigration - Thursday 3 March, 2016
# Royston Weighs In
# Royston Weighs In
Ex-Fianna Fáil councillor Royston Brady says he has no problem with paying for water in his adopted home of Florida.
# emigration - Thursday 11 February, 2016
# Opinion
# Opinion
Barry Johnston says emigrants are exercised about having no say in the kind of country they would one day like to return to.
# emigration - Tuesday 26 January, 2016
# And Stay Out
# And Stay Out
There has been a steady increase in the number of people overstaying their welcome over the past five years.
# emigration - Sunday 24 January, 2016
# Opinion
# Opinion
There’s something weird about a media and government cheering on a movie about emigration, writes Julien Mercille.
# emigration - Thursday 17 December, 2015
# Emigration
# Emigration
Janet and Eugene found being separated from their children and grandchildren unbearable.
# emigration - Sunday 25 October, 2015
# Emigration
# Emigration
One in six people born in Ireland are still living abroad.
# emigration - Wednesday 14 October, 2015
# Not So Grand
From The Daily Edge
# Not So Grand
That pale, sickly American butter. Pssh.
# emigration - Friday 18 September, 2015
# Not Coming Home
# Not Coming Home
The ‘brain exchange’ of both highly-educated emigrants and immigrants remains a significant threat to an Irish recovery according to a new report.
# emigration - Tuesday 8 September, 2015
# Close The Borders
# Close The Borders
“You can’t walk down a street in Jamaica or Hong Kong or India without hearing someone speaking English”.