A viable alternative to emigration

AS I won’t be able to personally wish you all bon voyage, may I – through the letters page of the Irish Examiner – say goodbye and best of luck to the hundreds of thousands of people who are about to blaze Ireland’s latest emigrant trail.

Your absence from our communities, workplaces, sports clubs, charities and associations will be painfully felt by those of us able to remain in Ireland.

Our sense of loss will be compounded by guilt for having failed to redress the failings of a system that has casually and cruelly discarded you.