In a recent article in the Western People, my local paper, journalist Michael Commins quoted from an interview with Mr. Pius Ford, a key activist with the Irish community in Manchester and the British midlands. Mr. Ford confirmed that the trend of Irish emigrant families returning to this country over the past ten years to set up home and enjoy the fruits of the Celtic tiger has not alone been stopped but is being reversed. The Claremorris-based company Ark Furniture Removals has confirmed that its business is booming, but in the wrong direction. Many of these families are uprooting and returning to Britain lock, stock and barrel. The reasons given by those interviewed and by the company are stated to be job losses, the cost of living since the introduction of the euro and poor services, particularly in the health sector. These people return to Britain sad, disillusioned, devastated and embittered. They are embittered that the dream of seeing out the rest of their and their children's lives in the country of their birth and origin has been shattered.