RTÉ News reports on Irish emigrants returning home to Knock Airport to be with their families for Christmas. The majority of the emigrants are employed in Britain where it is becoming difficult to find jobs.

A mother states her anger at the governemt which has forced the brains of Ireland to emigrate and in some cases to sleep rough in London.

A RTÉ News report from Knock airport broadcast 21 December 1990.

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