Hundreds of newly trained nurses will be emigrating due to a lack of jobs in Ireland, warned the Irish Nurses Organisation this week. INO general secretary Liam Doran says that only about 25-30% of newly trained nurses are being offered jobs, after being trained in four-year training programmes funded by the taxpayer. Doran told the… Continue reading Nursing rep raises spectre of emigration
Category: US
Emigration increasing, says CSO
Emigration increased slightly in the year ending April 2008, with 45,300 people leaving Ireland. The figure is the highest since 1990, when 56,300 people left the country, but there are a couple of factors making a difference between then and now. First, it is likely that there are number of immigrants who had been temporarily… Continue reading Emigration increasing, says CSO
HSE sending children abroad involuntarily for care
A local newspaper report has revealed that it is HSE policy to send troubled children out of the country to as far away as the US – for services that they say are not available in Ireland. The report says that children are being held against their will, without physical contact with their families, and… Continue reading HSE sending children abroad involuntarily for care
US agency warns of tighter ID requirements
The Emerald Isle Immigration Center in the US and the Coalition of Irish Immigration Centers are alerting us to heightened security measures in the US that will tighten requirements on documents needed to pass through checkpoints. Anyone travelling through the US must have proper ID when crossing the border and even when travelling internally. The… Continue reading US agency warns of tighter ID requirements
Let diaspora return, says Irish-America
Two pleas from Irish America calling for changes to make it easier for the diaspora to come to Ireland were published in the last week. In the first, Rose Foley of Boston writes in the Irish Times that she has sought for the last eleven years to find a way to work in Ireland –… Continue reading Let diaspora return, says Irish-America
Wavelengths: Irish and American Music. UCD: Sept 2008
The UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies will host a conference exploring musical links between Ireland and the US. Organisers say This event has been conceived a by a group of scholars, musicians and producers to provide a focus for performance and study of Irish and American musical relations. These relations have a long and… Continue reading Wavelengths: Irish and American Music. UCD: Sept 2008