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Anecdotal report highlights emigration
By Noreen Bowden | July 30, 2008
Anecdotal evidence that emigration is rising is continuing to appear in the media. There is a report in the Corkman local newspaper suggesting that builders have already started to emigrate.
The report quotes a 21-year-old local man who lost his job as an apprentice electrician that he may be forced to go abroad:
I can’t even begin to describe how frustrating it is to spend years working towards qualification and now find myself in a situation where I can not even get a labouring job. Already some of my friends have gone to England to find work. Unless I can find a job within the next few weeks I will have no option but to join them.
Figures released today by the Central Statistics Office show a sharp rise in the number of people signing onto the Live Register this month. There are now 238,000 people on the Live Register – the highest in more than a decade. The figure jumped by more than 17,000 from June, the second-largest monthly increase on record.
The unemployment rate is also rising rapidly, standing at 5.9% in July, up from 4.8% in the first quarter of this year.
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