I fear I have no future in Ireland

Postgrad student Annemaria O’Reilly is determined not to be one of the ‘lost generation’, even as her peers prepare to leave the country

THE boom has collapsed into a bust and has left Ireland’s talented youth waving goodbye to their families, their home and their future.

If this country is to have a future, we must take the reins and reinvent Government. Government is implementing cutback after cutback in public expenditure on my education. Middle-income families are coerced into paying potentially higher income tax, childcare, health care and college fees, and, like so many struggling families, are ineligible for state support.