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From: GHackett <>
Subject: [HACKETT-L] Vice consul - Irish
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 01:25:01 -0500

"Irish companies and the Irish government are working hard to recruit
skilled Irish emigres in the Boston area who can ease their country's
labor shortage. Exact figures on the numbers of Boston Irish going home
are difficult to compile, but JOSEPH HACKETT, vice consul at the
Consulate General of Ireland in Boston, estimates that several thousand
Irish nationals living in Boston have returned to Ireland within the the
last two years" (1998-1999).

Because of [High Tech] "there is a prosperity there (Ireland) that we
really haven't seen in recent times, so people are attracted back home
for that," says Sheila A. Gleeson, director of immigration services at
the Irish Immigration Center in Boston.

Just thought it interesting that JOSEPH HACKETT is vice consul.

Taken from "The Wall Street Journal", written by Staff Reporter Hilary
Sargent, who had a three column story about 'BOSTON'S IRISH ANSWER CALL
of the EMERALD ISLE" last week.
Gary I.(10) Hackett

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