Youth emigration is rarely a lifestyle choice

It is simply not true to suggest that those who emigrated did so as a “lifestyle” choice.

Since 2008 it is reported that over 200,000 Irish people have emigrated. It would appear that at every opportunity and using any excuse our ministers continue to suggest that most of these folk wanted to go.

In the last week, Michael Noonan has thrown his fifty cents in as has Leo Varadkar and Brian Hayes.