Ireland: Unemployment could lead to rise in male crime

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'Ireland could face social unrest and higher crime rates following a massive surge in unemployment among men in their early 20s, a leading economist has warned.
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Men in their early twenties have experienced a threefold increase in unemployment, a more pronounced rise than any other age group, driven by the collapse in the building industry. One in five men in this age bracket were out of work in the three months to November, according to the latest Quarterly National Household Survey.

O’Neill believes society is ignoring the plight of men who opted out of further education in favour of earning huge wages in bricklaying, carpentry and other trades during the boom. Some 82,000 men who were working in construction in January 2007 left school without sitting their Leaving Cert exams.'