Ireland feeling effects of economic distress

 
| Published: March 2, 2011   

SEVERAL events are planned locally this month to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. For the sake of the Auld Sod, let’s hope that any actual Irishmen who take part are just visiting rather than fleeing their native land.

photo - Voters leave a polling station in Knock, Ireland, after casting their vote in the Irish general election Friday. Roughly 1,000 people a week are expected to leave Ireland the next two years. AP Photo
Voters leave a polling station in Knock, Ireland, after casting their vote in the Irish general election Friday. Roughly 1,000 people a week are expected to leave Ireland the next two years. AP Photo

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Another wave of emigration is affecting Ireland, a trend as familiar as the wearing o’ the green on March 17. The reason, as always, is economic distress. Eire you go again.

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