With higher education teaching starting up once more, the news media are – for a while at least – paying attention to Ireland’s under-25 adult population. A Red C poll this month found that more 70 per cent of adults aged 18-24 are considering moving abroad. While the sample size was small (just 151) and there doesn’t seem to be any similar prior survey to compare the results to, it would be foolish to ignore the sentiment of so many younger adults. And over the last few weeks, Alice Kiernan’s poem – “My Love/Hate Letter to Dublin” – went viral…

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