Unemployment Rate: Ha'penny Bridge

Ireland Dept: DUBLIN - Ireland's unemployment rate rose to an 18-year high of 14.9 per cent in June, underscoring the country's struggle to stimulate economic growth in the face of austerity measures, government statisticians reported Wednesday, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Irish unemployment rose from 14.7 per cent in May. It last reached 15 per cent in March 1994, the year that Ireland began its first extended economic boom, becoming known as the Celtic Tiger and in this Sunday, July 1, 2012 photo pedestrians pass a beggar on the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin, Ireland. Unemployment in the Republic of Ireland has risen to 14.7 percent over the past four years of fiscal crisis, during which Ireland has spent tens of billions nationalizing its debt-crippled banks and risked national bankruptcy itself. Ireland's treasury plans this week to hold its first sale of debt securities since the country's 2010 EU-IMF bailout and hopes to resume normal borrowing next year. AP Photo/Shawn Pogatchnik The rising joblessness could have been worse but for Ireland's tradition of mass emigration in times of economic hardship. The Central Statistics Office says about 76,000 left this country of 4.5 million last year for stronger job markets in other English-speaking countries chiefly Britain, Australia and Canada and the trend has continued this year. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.