Eamon Gilmore: Irish Immigrants To Canada

Ireland Dept: In two tiny rooms jammed with brogues and shamrocks, Gilmore put a brave face on the brain drain that has robbed Ireland of 100,000 people in the last two years, according to The Star. In the meantime, Ireland is kicking in $80,000 to help fund the new Irish Canadian Immigration Centre for the more than 10,000 mostly young, skilled Irish immigrants fleeing 14.8 per cent unemployment for a year or two in Canada on working visas and irish Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore , in town to open a new settlement centre for the latest flood of Irish immigrants to Canada, was looking forward to toasting St. Patrick at the end of the day with a spot of Ontario red wine. They ll be back, he said. That s what happened in the 80s. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.