Showing a desire to stay in Ireland...on a billboard

During the height of the financial crisis in 2008, when heads were rolling in their thousands on Wall Street, experienced banker Joshua Perksy shot to fame by spending his time donning a sandwich board in Manhattan proclaiming his availability to be hired. It didn't work.

Now, in Ireland, 26-year-old marketing graduate Féilim Mac An Iomaire is hoping for more luck. He's spent his life's savings (€2k) taking out a billboard ad on Dublin's Merrion Road asking a potential employer to "save me from immigration".

Mac An Iomaire doesn't work in the financial sector, but his plight will have elicited the sympathies of many who do. Around 50,000 people are expected to emigrate from Ireland this year, mostly young graduates, but many seasoned financial sector workers.

Front office bankers are heading to the City to pursue new, and more lucrative, opportunities, while younger workers are finding career progression opportunities limited during Ireland's fiscal crisis and are looking overseas.

Mac An Iomaire is on Twitter (@joblesspaddy) and told the Guardian that he's "not looking exactly looking for a concrete job offer. I would sooner go through the whole process of doing an interview."