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...Dublin, Ireland Inside a black-and-white half-timbered building in central Dublin late last month, some 9,000 people - from plumbers to bankers - gathered with a common purpose: finding a new job. Almost all "were skilled, professional people," says Stephen McLarnon, who runs the firm that put on the event, and they were "looking to make a committed move." And a long-distance one. At the Down Under Expo, a forum for recruitment agencies and immigration officials, the prize for job hunters was a new start, not in Ireland, but in Australia or New Zealand...
...weakening Ireland's construction industry, which plays an outsized role in the country's economy. Throw in frozen credit markets, high inflation, soaring unemployment and a new tax to pay for the financial crisis bailout, and it's little wonder Ireland's workers are again pondering a move abroad. Dublin's Economic and Social Research Institute, a think tank, forecasts a net migratory outflow of 30,000 in 2009, the highest rate for 20 years. The stalled economy, McLarnon says, has "created a sense of urgency...
Recent immigrants to Ireland are among those wondering whether it's time to leave. Some 150,000 Poles came to Ireland in the two years after Poland joined the E.U. in 2004, for instance, but thousands are now heading home. At a recruitment fair in Dublin a few days ago, a panicked former economics student from the west of Ireland wondered if it might be time for her to leave the country, too. Unable to land a financial-services job in Ireland since graduating in May, this 24-year-old woman is now considering a move to England. "I haven...
...feel you've "infiltrated" Hollywood? Keith Broni, DUBLIN...
...acclaimed volume “North” in 1975 and accepted a post as visiting professor at Harvard in 1981. He was elected to the Boylston chair in 1984. The arrangement allowed him to spend only four months per year in Cambridge, and the rest at home in Dublin with his wife, Marie, a fellow writer. From 1989 to 1994, Heaney flew back and forth between Cambridge and Oxford for his five-year professorship, and after took a leave of absence from Harvard. Then, in 1995, Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Nobel committee cited Heaney?...