Sir, – I wanted to express my solidarity with Eve Kerton for her piece on graduate unemployment and to thank her for highlighting the trouble so many graduates are now facing ("'I'm trying my utmost to ride the storm' – an unemployed graduate's story", September 28th).
No longer are undergraduate degrees, master’s degrees or even professional qualifications sufficient. It remains an employers’ market.
While studying in Washington last year, I attended an Irish Embassy event where Minister of State for Diaspora Affairs Jimmy Deenihan spoke about the concerted effort the Government is making to keep graduates at home and entice graduate emigrants home. I, like many of my classmates, am waiting to see this effort come to fruition. I would like to work in my country. However, like many of my friends, I realise sadly that I will have to look to opportunities abroad. – Yours, etc,
MEGHAN
McSWEENEY, LLM
Blackrock, Co Dublin.