Irish Emigration to Accelerate, Exceed Worst Years of 1980s
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Irish emigration will accelerate and exceed the worst of the 1980s, when the country was last mired in recession, the Economic & Social Research Institute said.
A net 100,000 people will leave the country in the two years through April 2012, the Dublin-based ESRI said in its quarterly report. Some 35,000 people left in the year to April 2010 and 44,000 departed in 1989, the biggest outflow in that decade.