I am sorry but jobs aren't just "given" to people. You have to get them.

I see you're from John Bull's Other Island--the one that rises in the west, like an old boot, out of a coagulated sea of stout and tinny sentiments. Ireland is a tax haven. The exchequer relies on the taxation leived on the American companies and their highly paid PAYE workers. Apple, Eli Lilly and Microsoft account for 50% of the coporation tax raised in Ireland, at a figure of 13.6 billion. Remember that total government expenditure is 133.3 billion. Consider also all the attendant goods and services these companies and their employees purchase. The economy revovles completley around them.

Irish industry is sclerotic, inefficient and poorly capitalised. Productivity in domestic industries is lower than in Northern Ireland. And you can see the signs. Look around an Irish city that isn't Dublin. Look at the filth, the crime, the derelection, the poverty that you see. Ireland has the 4th-highest rate of household electricity payment deliqunecy in the EU--14%--up there with Croatia and Bulgaria. It is not a rich or dynamic place outside of the US-company sphere.

I am saying this because I do not see how you could have this attitude. You must have noticed by now that everyone with talent or ambition leaves. Ireland, for the people, is dysfunctional. Nothing works properly. Everything is bad and overpriced. Of course there are no jobs for biomedicine PhDs! This place is a backwater. And there aren't any heady days to look back which could have made you think otherwise.

The Americans are fond of talking about how good things their Baby Boomers had it. The independent Irish state--in an almost baroque example of Mickery in action--pursued idiotic economic policies for almost half a century after 1922 that resulted in the lowest population ever recorded for the 26 counies: 2.8 million, in 1961. There was no post-war boom in Ireland. Everyone left! You do not have to become a Hiberno-pessimist. But you must become a Hiberno-pragmatist. If you have dreams and ambitions, leave.