Irish Urge Children to Leave as Export Gain Masks Lost Jobs

(Adds bond returns in eighth paragraph. See {EXT4 <GO>} for more on euro-area financial crisis.) Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) — Anthony Roche is urging his unemployed son to emigrate to Australia from Ireland to escape joblessness stemming from the country’s economic collapse. “I’ve seen the good times and the bad and these are the worst,” Roche, [...]

The Irish Suffer Austerity in Silence

Ireland is pounded by budget cuts that will amount to 20 percent of GDP, but protests are rare and with none of the violence seen in Greece or Italy In a village in County Cork in southern Ireland, about 50 farmers and business people meet after Mass on Sundays to protest against taxpayer bailouts of [...]