Hi all,
I am going to ask probably a really stupid question here so forgive me! As a UK citizen born and bread do we have a right to move to RoI if we choose without a visa? We are currently living and working in Canada but our permanent residency is most likely going to be turned down as we have an autistic son so we are looking for somewhere else other than the UK to move to. I know RoI is going through some tough times at the moment but I was wondering about the electrical trade. My husband is a sparky and has been for 25 years so what's the chance of him getting a job? I work with the disabled as a Supervisor at an Adults Day program and would like to continue with that line of work what's the chances of that?
Having had to fill in so much paper work for Canada I was wondering about the RoI and if the same applies?
We want to be somewhere that is not crowded where my kids are safe and will have a good standard of life without the discrimination of disabilities that Canada seems to have.
any advice would be great thanks and merry christmas to all.

yep, you can. I'm dutch/english, andthe english passport meant i lived in Dublin for three years with nary a hassle. I had to stop by the Gardai at one point for a form proving I lived there for the tax man, but that was it.

Seriously easy. Its also a common trade area, so you can even bring pets and the like over on teh ferry without a problem from the uk (not an issue as you're in canada, I know).

As ot jobs, can't help you - i'm in Lethbridge AB! but when I let ireland (2008) it was seriously expensive to rent a place.

thanks for that...does that mean then that if we had to leave Canada (by the way we're in Cochrane!) does that mean we can just by a one way ticket to Ireland and take things from there? I guess then my husband could do self employed electrics or get some contract work. When you say renting was expensive how much are you talking here? I hasten to add we pay $2300 a month here in Cochrane so that's pretty expensive eh? lol. what are the down sides to living in Ireland? Other than the rain which i am not used to anymore!!!

Allo Canucks.

Rent is much cheaper now. We got 200 a month off ours a last summer. As long as you have EU passports i dont think it matters if you have Irish citizenship. Building trade work is absolutely dead here right now, in fact most work is. Health care is very very expensive much like American system. Sorry for the downer on the last two but Ireland is in a bad way right now. Lovely place, absolutely the best people, very friendly and funny.

P.S. Just enjoyed watching my beloved Canucks stuff you're Flames

Hi just wanted to join in, we are in Okotoks and am sitting watching Flames play Oilers, Oilers winning 1-0 at mo!

Anyway, you could move to Ireland no problem, though work in building trade is practically non existant at moment, (in touch with friends all the time back home).... saying that we are moving back to beloved Kilkenny end of January, various reasons too many to go into.

We know hubby will have nothing for time being but i should have my job (only took leave of absense) and also appears to be plenty of work in my field, so we will muddle through with help of family and friends and will be able to watch the GODS of Hurling, play in the flesh....ahhh the thought of it!!!!

Also my dad is panicing as my 6 year old is now standing up singing Oh Canada at every moment.

I have enjoyed my time in Canada, and really like calgarians, and possibly at a different time in our lives we would consider staying...but the fields (especially gaa pitches) are calling.

The best of luck with whatever decision you make

I am from the us ,and I live ireland with my husband a U.K. citizen.
We have had no problems living here even getting permanent residency ,
was not that hard as I had no visa when I came here tohere live .
Now on to heath care its about like the us not cheap but tell me where is cheap but there help one only has to ask

Britain. Only thing i miss from Britain is our fabulous heath service.

thanks guys for the info, although if there's no work for sparkies then we may have to look elsewhere or i send him on his travels again...erm.... afghanistan maybe????? Whats the work like for me I run a Day Centre for disabled adults, primarily with autistic and developmentally delayed adults? I have 14 years experience of autism as I live with it everyday!!! Anyone any ideas? I have also worked with young offenders so anything in that field would be good too.
I hope we don't have to move in the end but i'm just trying to cover all bases in case we do as no way do i want to go back to the UK.

Hi i too work in the social care field, i took leave of absence from a government position and am hoping to get back, if not there is apparently alot of work with some agencies around the country. Here is one www.ttm.ie.
They have various vacancies.

Hope this helps, my oh is a bricklayer so we know he is going back to nothing, but as i said in earlier post we will struggle through.

You also might want to take a look at the govt website to see recent cuts in social welfare.

Take care
Anne

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories

This link will give you a lot of information in all areas

hope it helps

Happy new year
Paul

You are probably better off staying in Canada, get whatever kind of visa you can. The Irish economy here is in the toilet. It's not just to world financial crisis, the Irish economy has been exposed as a house of cards. It is not going to get better any time soon.

Hi, just started looking at this thread. I am from N.Ireland and am living in Canada at the moment. My daughter lives in a small village in Cork, she moved there 4 years ago, and loves it. She has 3 children aged 11 to 6yrs and they love it too, my grandsons play gaelic, soccer, golf, hurling,and speak now with cork accents. It is a beautiful friendly place, the downside?? she has to pay for all their medical, drs bills, dentists, school books, all the above games all out of her own pocket, and she has just told me they ahve cut her child benefit by €13 per child in the last budget. She is ok but has no holidays, or luxuries, like dinner out, she gets dvd's and makes a little night with her kids with munchies as she calls it. The one thing I will say the kids are not spoilt and are really happy with what they get, which I think is more important that materialisic wealth. Rents have come down quite a bit, I think though that is all. Why don't you look at a border town in the north, it is so much cheaper for everything, people in the south are coming up to buy food, drink, detergents ect: (changed times from when we went down there to get our petrol ciggies ect hope this helps good luck.

HI, you are not far from my daughter she is in Rathcormac and loves it, but it is not cheap, what price is contentment though??? I came back to Canada and thought we would settle again no problem, but am finding it really hard and feel I have made a big mistake, so will look at back home again

thanks for all the info guys, it does sound like the economy is pretty much like the UK and probably worse as there's not as much work around, which would be a real problem. Things are pretty tough here in Canada at the moment and hopefully we won't have to leave but i always like to have a back up plan, so if anyone there knows of any electrical job sites that would be useful. thanks again for the info

Where is cochrane, is that the western Canada? would you have stayed if you had been allowerd? We came back to Toronto, but I hate it, we are from Belfast, and are thinking of going back home, but I might look at the border areas of the north because my husband needs medical care,and we have the NHS, but I love the south. What is Cochrane like are the people friendly? Good luck
Denise