Personal Finance Personal finance: The five pitfalls to avoid before packing up and moving abroadTaking care of business like mortgage or loans and having a financial plan before you emigrate will support you while you’re away and help you when you return
MIGRATION Emigration tops 60,000 for 2022 as immigration reaches 16-year high More than 141,000 people arrived into Ireland last year - 42,000 of which came from Ukraine
column Eithne Shortall: Emigrants know that things would be different, if they ever decide to come backComing home for Christmas inevitably ends in a heavy-hearted departure and awareness of impending homesickness, coloured by the artifice of nostalgia
Columnists Nadine O’Regan: For young people struggling here, emigration is again becoming a very real prospectA shocking housing crisis at home is causing a generation of Irish young people to be less risk-averse when it comes to seeking their futures elsewhere
Housing Crisis A new generation emigration: Why so many young people no longer see a reason to stay hereAlanna MacNamee finds an air of pessimism among some young people who can only see a bleak future here with rising costs and expensive rents and housing