Why there would be a heavy price to pay for anyone returning to Ireland
I READ with amusement the article by Laura Lynott (‘Two of my three children left for abroad. I hope they will return’, Irish Independent, October 1) about a retired teacher and the hope he has for his two children who left this country during the crisis to live abroad. His hope is, now the economy is on the up, they may come back with their children here to live. It was all very aspirational, sweet and full of hope for the future, but I wondered if this retired teacher has fully thought out his son’s future if he returns.
I too saw one of my two children leave this country and he is now living in Singapore with his wife and child, but do I want to see them come back to Ireland to live? Absolutely not.
Of course, I too love my children and there is nothing I would like more than to see them live here and have my grandchild around me, but while it would be great for me and my wife, we certainly do not want to wake up every morning and watch them crushed and at the mercy of vestedinterests that successive governments have colluded with to ensure their good health, outrageous house, car and health insurance premiums, outrageous mortgage interest rates, soaring house prices, A&E trolley crisis, several-year waiting lists for crucial surgical procedures, a Government that will not allow competition into the mortgage market, a chronic housing shortage and finally, he would coming back to a country run by possibly the most inept public representatives in all of the EU if not the world, overseeing a political establishment run by two main parties who have colluded with our so-called friends in Europe to pay back the billions of gambling debts of German and French banks. Anthony McGeough
Dublin 24