Saturday 18 May, 2013
IT IS EXPECTED that over 600,000 people will pass through Dublin Airport over the next couple of weeks as they head off on a festive holiday or travel home for Christmas.
There were emotional scenes at the airport today with Irish people of every age, living all over the world, returning to spend the holidays with their families and friends who greeted them at arrivals.
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Personally it is great to be home from Australia for Christmas as being away last Christmas was tough, everyone wants Christmas Day on the beach with 40* heat……until they have tried it!!! There is no where in the world as good as home especially at Christmas!!! :-)
Got teary eyed looking at those pics :’(
Sad in this day and age soo many have to leave this Country for work.
Enjoy your time together everyone.
Merry Christmas all.
It is a shame but living abroad, if even for a couple of years does open your eyes and mind..:))
Mind you I would love to be back home for a pint or two with family and friends…
Ireland will come back again and hopefully with lessons learned and a new crop of leaders from this generation.. Not the muppets in power at present..!
Having had to leave Ireland twice, in hindsight the first time without children etc was far easier ( which most of the article photos represent).
A few photos of wives and nippers crying their eyes out as fathers and husbands return home for Christmas might have painted a truer picture.
So very sad that so many Irish families are being ripped apart to pay for the greed of the few. I now regularly see young single people in or around 30, with good jobs, pack their bags and go anyway. They see no end insight to austerity budgets and see their taxes wasted on overpaid quangos and higher paid civil servants. Not a PS rant. Just the truth. Guy left our place today. He’s single, v smart, 65k pa. His gf is same. Can’t stand seeing wasters in Quangos earning twice his pay cos they know someone. Australia, uve a good one coming
I understand that many Irish people have to leave because they can’t get jobs in their chosen field here. However the young professionals who are leaving well paying jobs here are among those best placed to change things here if they put their minds to it. Unfortunately this is nothing new, Ireland’s brightest and best have always turned their backs on this country leaving the rest of us to muddle through. If enough of them had stayed and gone into politics we might have had a decent choice of candidates at election time.
Unfortunately Muriel
When our youth see that in Ireland that their children can be freely raped by members of the clergy without prosecution or intervention from our fine “leaders and protectors”.
And now again today
Their families can be freely financially “raped” by a corrupt/criminal financial sector with full government support.
I think that a lot of these emigrants are dead right to leave this country and its diseased, bought out government and its Banana Republic system.
Why are those who travel by ferry always ignored?
Back in the day My family and I always drove home from England for Christmas but the media could not see past Dublin Airport.
Did/do they think the boat is only for McAlpine’s Fusiliers?!
Cornelius, not everyone has the freedom to get away and work abroad. I feel sorry for those who are forced to travel to find work, some of these people have young families here. However I think a large number of people are leaving for lifestyle reasons and if they stayed here and put their shoulders to the wheel it would help this country.
I think plenty of best and bright stay. Seeing as i have and honors degree and masters yet can’t get on any graduate programs or get a job unless i have a 1.1 degree or experience. I am now working a jobbridge internship for a government organisation for 50 euro extra a week (which was supposed to be paid a last week yet hasn’t, so left without till January). So clearly the people the top of their class are getting these positions. And maybe people that are better hands on are losing out. But there ya go.
While I agree not everyone has the freedom to leave, I also believe at some stage in their lives they could have. I also believe that the likes of myself who have left this country for a few years are part of the problem as to why the country is in a state. Like I dont feel I have as much as say as a person in Ireland that has never left. I’d imagine there’s thousands like me.
The censorship of comments should be based on legal reasons not the whim of journalists in the Journal. You rely on freedom of speech for your job, you should extend that concept to your readers.
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