14.2% or so as from this article http://www.tradingeconomics.com/ireland/unemployment-rate

@electronista tweeted this:

EU youth unemployment: 22.4%. Spain 50.5%, Greece 50.4%, Ireland 31.6%, France 21.7%, Italy 31.9%, Portugal 35.4%, UK 22.2%, Germany 8.2%

Which gives Ireland a youth unemployment rate of 31.6%. Rather high, no?

That being said, I scanned the eurostat report linked above and couldn’t see that info included.

oops @electionista. Nothing to do with electronics.

Spain is a much bigger Country than Ireland, and anyway do you honestly think Ireland will release accurate figures after what they showed themselves for what they are over the past weeks..LIARS@LIARS.com

Spain and Greece. Very high unemployment lots of young people with nothing to do. Wouldn’t surprise me if there was a big rise in social unrest in those countries over the next few months.

Projections for Spain for 12mths time are one in three of the workforce being unemployed. Can Spain survive as a society with that level of unemployment. It is going to have that shocking level of unemployment and then be asked by the EU to implement the austerity fiscal pact, which will push the economy in to further decline.

The Euro is a lead weight on our economy but it is going to kill Spain, Italy, Greece and Portugal.

The countries that aren’t ‘working’ in Europe are the ones in greatest need of political, administrative and legal reform. How many tribunals has Ireland run? Despite hundreds of millions spent on revealing corruption and cronyism, has anything changed? Ireland isn’t in position to lecture the rest of Europe about reforms.

Oh because no corruption goes on in Germany or France. I also find it ironic that you don’t think Ireland is in a position to lecture about reforms because of its past, yet you think it’s ok for a country that was responsible for the largest genocide ever witnessed in world history is somehow morally ok to lecture in spite of their past? If we apply your rules there isn’t a country on the face of the planet could propose reform. Quite daft if you don’t mind me saying!

Spain are taking migrants in. South americans, moroccans etc.

Many south americans have Spanish passports I guess. How are the Morroccans getting in to the country?

Boats. I have a friend in my class who is Moroccan and he’s told me just how easy it is for a Moroccan to sail illegally into Spain. As an example, an uncle of his friend has snuck into Spain illegally no less than 3 times in 15 years. You would wonder why anyone would willingly move to Europe but the truth is Spain offers a much better quality of life compared to what educated people in Morocco could hope for by staying.

“Inflation and credit expansion, the preferred methods of present day government openhandedness, do not add anything to the amount of resources available. They make some people more prosperous, but only to the extent that they make others poorer.”
Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973), Austrian economist, Bureaucracy p. 84

Good man Norman. Good to have you on board. We have Réada on our side too. All will be well. Vote Yes in the EU Referendum. We’ll get you Millions of Knobs, sorry Jobs…

My bad unable to type with a sarcastic tone.I think the % is higher but they can’t tell the peasents.

I know Norman. Just thought I’d try to get into the mindset of a FG supporter. I found I started talking in the third person. Weird! I’m better now. Vote NO. The EU in this form is a disaster.