Professor John FitzGerald:

The ESRI carried out research on this 20 years ago, in particular in the Gaeltacht areas, where people were leaving and not coming back. It turned out that because they were highly educated, the jobs they wanted were jobs that were available in urban areas. Services jobs occur in urban areas, so if people get an education and want those kinds of jobs, where they are educated is not really the issue. Professor Morgenroth has done work on this issue.