Challenges facing Irish emigrants - Illegal in US but in need of our help
But it is unlikely that even that vast catalogue of farewells has recorded a case where an Irish person applying for permanent residency in Australia was rejected because a computer decided their spoken English was not good enough to allow them to live in the land of cockatoos, kangaroos, and wombats.
Yet, that is the situation Lucy Kennedy, aged 34, from Roundwood, Co Wicklow, who has been working as a vet in Queensland for two years, faces.
