The population continues to rise but so does the brain drain
The UK is experiencing a baby boom as the number of births hits the highest level in 40 years, according to mid year figures just out. Only a small fraction of the country’s higher population is now due to foreign immigration. In Northern Ireland where the population has continued to increase, more people left than arrived last year. But the facts about bouncing babies fail to conceal a continuing severe problem of emigration among Northern Ireland’s young people, which a …