YOUTH EXODUS

THE next generation are voting with their feet, with one-in-three aged between 18 and 24 planning to emigrate in the next 12 months.

With little public faith in the direction in which the country is heading and at least four tough budgets ahead, the numbers looking for work abroad are set to accelerate next year, with one in ten people saying they will leave.

Unsurprisingly, emigration is most popular with single people with a quarter saying they see no future here, according to the results of an Irish Examiner/Lansdowne Millward Brown opinion poll.