Word: mclarnon
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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...
...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...
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