Repeating the past

I DO not know why there is so much surprise at the number of people leaving the country.

Raymond Crotty — the economist — kept making the point in the 1980s that since the Famine, Ireland has only been able to provide a living for one out of every two people born here. This changed in the 1990s, but now it looks like reverting back to the way it was for the previous century-and-a-half.

Kieran Grainger