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Large crowds expected at Working Abroad Expo in Cork

Organisers of the jobs and emigration fair had to shut the doors early at the weekend when more than 12,000 people turned up at the fair in the RDS in Dublin.

People queuing to get in at the Working Abroad Expo in Dublin at the weekend
People queuing to get in at the Working Abroad Expo in Dublin at the weekend
Image: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland

LARGE CROWDS ARE expected at a jobs and emigration fair which takes place in Cork today, days after tens of thousands of people attended the event in Dublin.

More than 12,000 people are believed to have attended the Working Abroad Expo at the RDS in Dublin over the weekend. Organisers were forced to shut the doors to the event on Sunday afternoon to attendees who had not pre-registered due to the large crowds.

The fair takes place in the Silver Springs Hotel in Cork today from noon until 7pm. Tickets cost €10, with online ticket sales already sold out.

More than 50 companies will be recruiting across the healthcare, construction and farming sectors, for jobs in Canada, Australia,  and other countries with skills shortages. The Expo will also offer information from companies on how to apply for visas and work permits.

Around 2,000 job interviews were held in the RDS across the weekend and about 250 job offers were made.

Exhibition director Stephen McLarnon said yesterday that he had been “completely taken aback” by the number of people who had turned up for the event, which has been running for the past decade.

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Comments (12 Comments)

  • These job exbo’s are really making a fortune..i wouldnt be a man of maths or anything but €10 x 12,000 is a lot of money..think i might hold a job exbo myself

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  • far away fields look greener ..
    good luck to them

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  • Good luck to all attending and at least there is no Fianna Fail gibbering idiots session in the location.

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    • Ross 07/03/12 #

      Aye. Their absence is welcome. I have seen on websites that 2 FF delegates sang “Cheerio Cheerio” to the work Expo que after some one shouted that FF should b ashamed of themselves.

      They are lovely, lovely caring people.

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  • I thought Cork was already ‘abroad’?

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  • Unfortunately it’s a waste of time for most attendees! Best of luck anyway.

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  • 12,000 turned up to the working abroad expo last weekend? I would have thought I seen that amount in the que when I was coming out of the place on Saturday.

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  • So will there be reporters outside sensationalising this as well there is over 445000 people on the dole. Naturally enough people do want to get jobs be it here or abroad so why the big shock headlines about it. We are supposed to be living in the global village at this stage so migration of workers throughout the village will occur it isn’t like 30 years ago where one phone call a week or month was the only communication between family’s there is Skype and other communication methods. I am not in any way trying to defend forced immigration but if successive governments use it as a release valve and the people of Ireland don’t stand up and protest enough then what can be done. The government should be investing more in infrastructure and other projects such as sustainability and get back into manufacturing, as balancing the books is of least significance. What will balancing the books do, it might please are central bank friends and the economic community it certainly might help us pay off our debt quicker but who is gaining from paying off debt, the banks that where bailed out by us so it has turned into a vicious circle. Unemployment ,immigration, less tax payers, less tax take, more job layoffs, pay off debt, less money for unemployed, more immigration, less tax take and so on. This is the way we are heading so the only way out of a recession is to invest. If we continue on the current austere road then the cycle of sucking us dry will continue until all our assets are gone and we are left with feck all.

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  • mick 07/03/12 #

    Pre book tickets and go early! We did that for the Sunday show in Dublin and had no problems!

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