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21.01.09, 08:41
When the European Union expanded eastward in 2004, Ireland opened its doors to
workers entering from former communist states to help maintain record economic
growth. Now, immigrants are heading for the exit.
The number of people leaving Ireland next year will outstrip those moving to
the country for the first time in 14 years, according to Economic and Social
Research Institute in Dublin. The biggest exodus will be among the 170,000
workers who arrived the past four years from Poland and other east European
states.
''It's a very hard situation,'' said Artur Kawczynski, 30, who lost his
factory job in Galway on Ireland's west coast 10 days ago. ''I rang my friends
in Poland to ask what job opportunities there are like.''
www.independent.ie/business/irish/poles-flee-ailing-irish-economy-1511401.html