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Unemployed told to leave Ireland in desperate move to slash welfare costs

Maria Tadeo

Friday 13 December 2013

Ireland is asking its citizens to leave the country if they can't find a job in a desperate bid to slash welfare costs.
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The Irish government has sent letters to approximately 6,000 unemployed people suggesting they should take jobs in other European countries in an effort to reduce unemployment benefits, the Financial Times has reported.

Some of the jobs were poorly paid but came with a "Mediterranean" climate.

An unemployed electrician was encouraged to move to Coventry, while another jobseeker was offered work as a bus driver in Malta.

Dublin defended the move insisting that the positions are voluntary and no one is being forced to leave the country.

Ireland is close to becoming the first euro zone nation to make a successful exit from its international bailout programme after the country's finances collapsed in the 2008 financial crisis.

Unemployment has eased in recent months, falling to its lowest level in four years in November at 12.5 per cent, but youth unemployment remains a problem.

Overall, one in four Irish under 25 is still unemployed.

The Irish are no friends of the UK, during the first and second world war they helped Germany against us, but we are not allowed to say it, they have bombed us and killed our citizens butwhen times were tough these two faced people came and lived here taking our jobs and dole money, like the ALL EU Immigrants they should be sent back to the Emerald Isle , Britain has to take care of its own first.