Irish Start to Come Back Home as Economic Recovery Gains Ground
- Ireland sees net inward migration for first time since 2009
- Employment tops 2 million for first time since economic crash
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Ireland bounced back to net migration for the first time in seven years, as the nation’s recovery from the worst economic crash in Western Europe continues.
Some 79,300 people moved to Ireland in the year to the end of April 2016, the government statistics agency said in Dublin on Tuesday. That was a 14 percent increase from a year earlier. The number of people leaving the country fell 6 percent to 76,200.