Great Potato Famine: Leaving Ireland

Recent Arrival Dept: "In Ireland we've dried up of construction work," John Heffernan, who arrived in Saskatoon on Thursday, told News, according to CBC. Heffernan landed a job with a Saskatoon builder after checking out the job market in Toronto and a recent arrival to Saskatchewan from Ireland says his home country is experiencing an exodus that compares to the movement of people during the great potato famine. "Unemployment is nearly at an all-time high. We've probably the biggest immigration, the amount of people leaving Ireland, since the famine of the 1800s," he added. Saskatoon employers eager as well (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.