Newly released figures show that one person leaves Ireland every 13 minutes. However, this staggering figure has decreased since the height of the “brain drain” when the numbers of Irish leaving, in search of a better life abroad, was as high as during the Great Hunger.

This is the first time in seven years that the number of Irish people leaving has dropped. It has decreased by 20% from 50,900 to 40,700. The figures released by Ireland’s Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that a total of 81,900 people, of all nationalities, left Ireland in the 12 months up to April 2014. This is down by 8% on the 89,000 recorded in 2012/13.

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