evidence: In a bid to reverse decades of chronic depopulation, the Irish government is from today offering grants of up to €84,000 (around £72,000) to people willing to buy a vacant home on one of the country's many offshore islands. [...] "Ireland will pay you $90,000 to move to a beautiful island home," trumpeted CNN, but inevitably the reality of the scheme is somewhat more complicated. [...] Another email, in Portuguese, came from a person in Brazil. "There is a lot of talk here that in Ireland there is financial assistance for families seeking to relocate to the islands", the email read, once Joanne had run it through Google Translate.