Home thoughts from abroad: Five emigrants speak about life away from Ireland
In the past five years, 123,800 more people have left Ireland than have moved here — on par with emigration figures from the 1980s.
This was, and continues to be, the first wave of mass emigration in the internet age — job interviews can be conducted via Skype, those abroad can easily contact friends and family at home, and air travel is the cheapest it’s ever been.
