Ireland's crisis was basically;
The point I'm trying to make with this is to illustrate how different Ireland's situation is to that in most of Southern Europe. It's a very globalized place, the most globalized country in the world according to some rankings. It needed at least some austerity to ensure that there wouldn't be massive capital flight --because global business requires stable government policy. So when Brussels inevitably holds this up as an example of what austerity can do it's incredibly irresponsible. 5 million problems led to the situations in places like Greece and Italy. 1 big problem led to the crisis in Ireland. To try and solve them the same way won't work. Any kind of stable political situation would have brought Ireland's unemployment rate down to normal levels. Southern Europe needs something akin to the Marshall Plan. You can't expect places with decades of political instability to wake up one day and act like Germans.
This is a giant rant for an unemployment figure, I know, but I think there's a base misunderstanding on how to solve unemployment in countries that haven't yet caught up structurally with Northern Europe. Fiscal discipline is necessary but not so much that some countries are teetering on the edge of electing fascists.