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# Emigration

Just 44 out of 2,500 Canadian visas for young professionals claimed

Almost 4,000 working holiday visas were snapped up in less than 10 minutes earlier this month.

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Mar 25th 2014, 3:42 PM

# Irish in Canada

If you're heading to Canada you might want to check this out...

The Gaelic League of Toronto is a non profit group that may be able to help you with your trip and getting settled.

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Mar 23rd 2014, 8:15 AM

# Across the water

It's not only nurses that have emigrated to find work. Guess how many GPs have?

The IMO say that the last five years has seen seven years’ worth of Irish qualified GPs move to the UK.

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Mar 21st 2014, 11:46 AM

# list of demands

Powerful response to Ireland Inspires video offers alternative view of Irish life

We’re Not Leaving Galway attempt a more accurate representation of the state of the country.

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Mar 21st 2014, 10:18 AM

# Emigration

Why did so many Wexford people choose Georgia as their new home in the 1800s?

A new research project is aiming to find out just that…

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Mar 20th 2014, 7:00 AM

# Irish Abroad

Another sad product of emigration, funerals can now be streamed online

The business hopes to offer a practical solution to Irish people that have emigrated who can’t return home.

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Mar 19th 2014, 6:11 PM

# college fund

College fees to get cut for children of Irish emigrants

The new rates will be in place by this September.

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Mar 18th 2014, 2:20 PM

# Emigration

Requests for €15.5m to help Irish people living abroad

A programme in Eamon Gilmore’s department provides funding to organisations supporting Irish communities abroad.

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Mar 17th 2014, 8:15 AM

# mallow to sydney

Irish lads write gas song about emigrating from Cork to Australia

Don’t forget you’re a proud Irish man.

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Mar 16th 2014, 3:23 PM

# Go to Granny

Emotional ad sees Irish parents meet their granddaughter for the first time

Can’t cope.

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Mar 14th 2014, 5:11 PM

# Crazy eh?

Irish people snap up nearly 4,000 Canadian visas – in 10 minutes

One person got visa number 301 just two minutes after registration opened.

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Mar 14th 2014, 11:32 AM

# emigrants

'A denial of people's rights': Sinn Féin wants a new junior minister for the diaspora

Gerry Adams has called for a raft of changes to how Irish abroad are treated here.

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Mar 11th 2014, 1:37 PM

# payday

Graduates are now earning much less. But exactly how much less?

Over the last ten years, graduate salaries went up, but then down even quicker.

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Mar 6th 2014, 2:06 PM

# Céad Míle Fáilte

Government backs National Diaspora Centre but wants a third-party to pay for it

Leo Varadkar says that the funds are not there and those expressing interest will be asked if they would be able to meet some or all of the capital costs.

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Mar 3rd 2014, 1:48 PM

# return to sender

This is the letter the HSE is sending to ask people if they've emigrated...

The HSE says in the letter that it is mindful that due to the “changed economic situation” that many cardholders may no longer be living here.

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Mar 2nd 2014, 7:45 AM

# Flight of the young

"We'd rather be poor with our people around us, than have opportunities in a different world"

From the outside looking in. Irish emigrants tell their stories.

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Mar 1st 2014, 8:30 PM

Voices

Column: Can girls STEM the tide of emigration?

Misconceptions about science, technology, engineering and mathematics are dissuading girls from taking them as subjects – doing a disservice to them and wider society, writes Dr Kirsten Foy.

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Feb 19th 2014, 7:00 AM

# G Tayto

Good news for ex-pats: Tayto is to be freely available in Australia and New Zealand

Club Orange, Tayto and Barry’s will be available in 600 shops across Australia and New Zealand.

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Feb 16th 2014, 3:08 PM

Voices

Column: Enda, Ireland won't crumble if emigrants are given a voice in elections

Some Irish emigrants can already vote in the election of representatives in Ireland… so long as they have the right degree, of course, write David Burns and Conor O’Neill.

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Feb 12th 2014, 1:00 PM

# Flight of the young

Ireland's lost generation: What happened without the 20-somethings? Part two.

With emigration taking its toll, we look at the Ireland that is being left behind. In part two, education and sport.

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Feb 8th 2014, 8:30 PM

# Emigration

Leaving to work in Australia? Make sure you know your rights

A pamphlet published by two unions and Sinn Féin gives details of pay conditions as well as contact information for groups offering support to Irish migrants in the country.

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Feb 5th 2014, 7:45 AM

# gallant allies

If you're for voting rights for Irish abroad the EU is on your side

The European Commission intervention comes as the ‘We’re Coming Back’ group make a submission to Irish Government arguing for voting rights.

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Feb 3rd 2014, 7:21 PM

# best and brightest

Venezuela's youth are abandoning their homeland, Ireland is their destination

Sometimes the lines outside the Irish consulate in Caracas are 200 people deep, forcing a rotating cadre of self-appointed leaders to maintain a 24-hour vigil to stop queue jumpers.

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Feb 1st 2014, 10:00 AM

# Loneliness

Older generation feeling 'harsh impact' of emigration, says helpline

Senior Help Line has seen a “worrying” increase in the number of calls.

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Jan 30th 2014, 12:31 PM

# Irish Abroad

Irish man in Australia gets jail sentence for drunken attack on a bouncer

Nine news reports that Diarmaid Dooley will spend between 8 months to a year in jail.

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Jan 27th 2014, 10:18 AM

# Down Under

9 Facebook statuses every Irish person posts from Australia

It must be the law over there, or something.

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Jan 20th 2014, 9:30 PM

Voices

Column: Our emigrated youth are still part of this country

As Ireland begins to recover its economy but continues to lose its youth, it’s more important than ever to forge strong ties with our diaspora, writes David Shanahan Burns.

Jan 14th 2014, 7:00 AM

Voices

Phil Prendergast: 8 reasons why pylons should not go ahead

MEP outlines her arguments for opposing Eirgrid’s Gridlink infrastructure plan, which would see giant pylons across rural areas.

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Jan 9th 2014, 11:30 PM

Voices

Column: Operation Emigration – is the Government trying to give us the shove?

High youth unemployment, education cuts, and JobBridge… am I the only one thinking the Government is trying to get rid of us?

Jan 9th 2014, 7:30 PM

# Missing You

Open Thread: Leave a Christmas message for your loved ones

Are you working out time difference to see when your loved ones will be up? Send your thoughts to those you’re missing.

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Dec 24th 2013, 6:00 PM

# Emigration

Irish emigrants organise worldwide toast to highlight their right to vote

The We’re Coming Back is campaign says Ireland “completely disenfranchises its emigrants”.

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Dec 19th 2013, 6:15 AM

# Skill Shortages

Home for Christmas? Stay and check out job prospects says recruiter

Recruitment agency Servisource says that there are particular skill shortages in the areas of nursing and construction.

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Dec 16th 2013, 10:34 AM

# Player Drain

Over 600 Tipperary GAA club players have emigrated in the last five years

Approximately one-fifth have returned to Ireland in the same time frame.

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Dec 3rd 2013, 9:30 PM

# totes emosh

WATCH: The Irish Christmas song dedicated to emigrants

Ah here.

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Nov 29th 2013, 10:53 AM

# Three from Three

Ireland has the highest birth, lowest death and greatest emigration rates in Europe

As of 1 January this year, Ireland’s official population was 4,591,100.

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Nov 21st 2013, 9:45 AM

# working lives

Pictorial record shows the Irish hard at work 100 years ago

Working Lives exhibition at the NLI exposes the conditions in which men, women and children toiled to survive.

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Oct 26th 2013, 8:45 AM

Voices

Column: Emigration is not all a sob story – it also has major benefits

While emigration can be sad, living abroad also exposes a person to new cultural challenges that can benefit them both as a person and as an employee, writes Amy Bracken.

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Oct 15th 2013, 1:20 PM

# Irish Abroad

Irish in NZ angered by article quoting rates of 'sex-disease' in community

The article quotes stats from a Christchurch sexual health clinic which has given details of appointments by Irish people but not on other nationalities.

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Oct 12th 2013, 2:25 PM

# Where to?

Canada could outstrip Australia as top destination for Irish emigrants

Visafirst.com say they have confirmed 10,000 Canadian working visas for Irish workers next year and predict a rise to 15,000 in 2014.

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Oct 9th 2013, 11:00 AM

# Emigration

Social Protection dept sends letters to Irish unemployed about jobs... in the UK

The department said that Irish people “are entitled to avail of any jobs on offer in other EU countries” and that the Jaguar Land Rover posts could be of interest to them.

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Oct 5th 2013, 8:30 AM