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Thu 10 Oct 2009Students seek out greener pastures to avoid recession
OPINION:I DID not grow up in the 1980s but shoulder pads, Bananarama and mass emigration are not things I regret missing out on. The first two I can avoid easily enough, but the last one has come back into fashion, writes SHANE FITZGERALD
The career choice for more and more young Irish graduates is to leave these bankrupt shores and escape to greener pastures. All of my fellow 2009 graduates seem to have fled Ireland, the same as myself, or else have retreated into a master’s degree for one more year’s insulation from the real world. Are we back to the brain drain of the 1980s?
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