Better to freeze in Canada than sink in Ireland

I LEFT Ireland in the late 1980s to find work here in Canada. Cork was experiencing incredible levels of unemployment at that time.

Better to freeze in Canada than sink in Ireland
Sat, 12 Dec, 2009 - 00:00
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Even the job of streetsweeper was hard to get.

The ‘90s brought in the Celtic Tiger. Things looked rosy. I contemplated a return to Cork, to my family.

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