Austin Hughes
speaker
415 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 19 Jun
Austin Hughes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You could be stuck for a while.
Now we're looking, you know, just under 5 percent.
And of that long term unemployment is about one and a half percent.
So, yes, there is greater dispersion.
And part of that is greater opportunity.
You know, there is undoubtedly the scope for someone to set up their own tech business.
The group, remember, there was a famous IDA ad that featured in a lot of papers in the early 80s where the young Europeans and it talked about graduates in terms of the economy.
When they looked back at the ad about seven or eight years afterwards, all but one of those people in the ad had gone abroad.
You know, so very different, hugely different in terms of education.
In 1985, we had 56,000 people in third level education.
2023, it's 260 odd thousand or so.
So there are more opportunities.
Yes, there is more anxiety.
There's more uncertainty.
We have, you know, the regular shocks, you know, from Brexit to COVID to the war in Ukraine.
to Mr. Trump's whatever he'll do tomorrow.
And we have the threat of AI.
But back then, as I say, it was a different threat.
We had the deindustrialization of the Irish economy and the sense, can we live with Europe?
Now, we got incredibly lucky in that regard.
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