We still can’t find work

The Taoiseach is calling on our emigrants to return home and fill vacancies here.

As Christmas approaches, I would just like to remind the Taoiseach and everybody else, that unemployment is still a harsh fact of life for many people here.

I am a highly skilled person myself, but I can’t find a job.

There is now a cosy consensus among politicians, the media and business representative groups that “everything is rosy in the garden”, with regard to the economy and the numbers “at work”.

That is far from the truth. It would be great if policy-makers and opinion-makers got back in touch with reality.

Tim Buckley

Bowling Green

White Street

Cork City