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Mon 06 Jun 2009An Irishwoman's Diary
IF I THINK about it I will frighten myself. Instead, I force my mind back to a time when travel was rare and only for those rich or desperate. In those periodic times of despair, emigration is one hopeful option.
I write this onboard an aircraft pointed in the direction of New York City. My immediate goal is to get some form of accommodation for my son who is following me from Dublin in two weeks’ time. He loves Ireland and being Irish but is desperate for a job. He has been out of work for a year now and despite his youth, he feels the time is wasting. I’m concerned what another year of unemployment will do to him.
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