Home thoughts from abroad: Five emigrants speak about life away from Ireland

Kelly O’Brien spoke to five people working abroad

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.