Giving emigrants a kick-start

Sir, – I almost choked on my porridge as I read William F Doyle's (November 11th) suggestion that €2,500 be given to Irish emigrants to "help them get a good start abroad".

Have we really come to this, where for all intents and purposes we would “bribe” our young people to leave our shores? If WB Yeats were around today, perhaps he would pen “No country for young men (or women)”. – Yours, etc,

JOHN BELLEW,

Paughanstown,

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Dunleer,

Co Louth.