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Francis Fitzpatrick and Ireland

Ireland: This has left many hopeful immigrants out of luck and stuck in Ireland where the unemployment rate is 11.9 per cent according to Eurostat, according to CTV. Our costs were getting bigger, and people were getting slower to pay. So because of the economy in the country as well these are all just forward signals that things were going down and The luck of the Irish was not on the side of many people looking to apply for visas. On March 15 th 3,850 working holiday visas were posted online for Irish citizens and they were all claimed in under 11 minutes. Francis Fitzpatrick, who ran a plumbing business in Ireland, moved to Saskatoon two years ago. His sister was one of the people hoping to get a visa. She was unable to get one, and Fitzpatrick says that people are racing to get out of Ireland, due to the nations slumping economy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.