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The Class of 2008, one year on
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Tuesday October 27, 2009 22:08 by Emily Smith emilysmith at eircom dot net
In the Summer of 2008 it was confirmed that Ireland's economy was in recession. At the same time thousands of people received the results of their degrees. This article looks at how the recession has affected the graduates of 2008, a group whose struggles have been under-reported in the media and some of those graduates relate their experiences, within the last year, of jobseeking, social welfare and further education. In June 2008 we received the news that Ireland was officially in recession at the same time as we received the results of our degrees. Since our final year of college many of us have gone through almost a year and a half of job-hunting or financial difficulty. But the graduates of 2008 seem to have been forgotten about by the media. One graduate, Jill, feels that last year’s graduates are not seen to be affected by the downturn in the same way that the class of 2009 are, “though I guess we left college at the start of the recession when the negative consequences for college leavers didn’t seem so apparent and maybe nobody thought it would get as bad as it did. Really we were probably amongst the first groups of people to realise just how bad things were!” |