We were lucky the Labour Party dealt with Emmet Stagg so swiftly when he was looking for directions in the middle of the night in in the Phoenix Park
In fairness that was in the days before sat nav.
I heard what Stanley done.
Are you on IPTV?
Iād love to know how many skilled trades left the country in that period out of necessity and never returned
It isnāt idle gossip
Ah Jaysus
It doesnāt matter whether it is or not. Itās the timing of it. Itās too late for SF to clean up the mess.
A lot of them left but an awful lot of them took jobs in the factories in Limerick and stayed in there.When lads get used to being paid every week they get to like it.
Edit
I remember reading in the paper about ten years ago or more there was only one apprentice blocklayer serving his time.FAS should have been training up apprentices themselves seeing as there was no work for them and we wouldnāt have the shortage we have now of tradies
A Civil Engineer I know got well looked after during the Celtic Tiger years. Emigrated to Australia in 2012 and is driving plant machinery in a mine in North Western Australia. Heād earn less now as an engineer if he returned home than he does in the mine or if he resumed Engineering, despite the time gap.
On the flip side heās working in a mine in North West Australia
Basically in prison
Only 3 people doing apprenticeships in the wet trades currently a plasterer friend told me there recently
I think we will need more than those three to build the thousands and thousands of houses being promised.
Given your opening gambit it would seem so.
We will
My pal is the gasun in his crew. Heās 49ā¦oldest 59
Young manās game if ever there was one
You mean more dirt?
What dirt is out there
Caught having a fake Twitter account which he used to abuse people from an internet cafe.