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Thu 11 Nov 2002Conference told of difficulties confronting migrant workersMigrant workers recounted the difficulties they have encountered in the Irish workplace and in society at a conference in Dublin yesterday.A trained teacher from Zimbabwe, who is working in a nursing home in Dún Laoghaire, said that migrant workers were present in large numbers in the private sector, but not in the Government. Ms Rebecca Gonyora said that she tried to obtain work as a teacher, but her inability to speak Irish prevented her from doing so. This was despite being told that she could take up a post and study Irish while she was teaching.