Irish least likely to emigrate, EU report finds

THE Irish are among the most loath in Europe to consider emigration — yet by next April, economic necessity will have forced 120,000 workers to leave the state in search of work.

The Government’s think-tank, the Economic and Social Research Institute, has said 70,000 people left the country in the last year and that a further 50,000 will pack their bags by next April.

A large number of those leaving will be made up of foreign workers returning home. But a significant percentage will comprise Irish people left with no option but to find work opportunities abroad.