text: The point is that most immigrants in Ireland have come here because it is economically advantageous for them to do so. If their economic circumstances change - or better opportunities arise elsewhere or back home - then many will move. Those receiving the remittances may insist on it. So it is a brave man (or government minister) who trys to predict the future of immigration in Ireland: our own migration experiences of one-way tickets to America or Australia may not be much of a guide to the future in an age of €10 Ryanair tickets to Bratislava.
  Apparently plunging stock prices ignite the same neurons that respond to a lion’s roar - or a bear's for that matter. According to the Telegraph, we respond within 12 milliseconds - or one-25th the time it takes you to blink your eye - to upsetting financial news; this is the time it takes to activate the amygdala, a structure in your brain that generates emotions like fear and anger.
  Anyone who has been watching the slow motion car crash that is the Irish stock market lately (down nearly 40% since February, and almost 50% in the case of financial stocks) will probably have felt a primordial urge to run and climb the nearest tree. A completely understandable reaction in the circumstances.