Hopeful expats to Ireland and the UK, let's gather resources!

It seems like a decent number of people here, for whatever reasons, would like to move in that direction. I'm doing it myself because I generally love European culture and lifestyle (yes, I know that it's very diverse and hard to generalize, but this is just based off my traveling stints and having lived in two very different European countries).

Ireland and the UK, being the only two English-speaking countries in the EU, seem to be my only hope for gainful employment. I speak French after having lived in France for a year, but much of it is gone now to the point that it's not enough to land a job. I assume most people are focusing on these countries for similar language reasons as well.

This is the brief research I've done so far for just Ireland: There are three ways to work in Ireland as a foreigner, in order of ease of approval it seems to be: intracompany transfer, green card (salary of 60k+ euros, or just 30k+ euros in certain industries), and work permit (no salary restriction). These are explained here: http://www.fas.ie/en/Job+Seeker/Working+and+Training+Abroad/Recruiting+outside+Europe.htm

Green card requirements go into more detail here: http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/migrant_workers/employment_permits/green_card_permits.html

And the FAS/EURES websites for looking up jobs are here: http://ec.europa.eu/eures/main.jsp?acro=job&lang=en&catId=482&parentCategory=482 and http://jobseeker.fas.ie/ If you don't qualify for a green card, then your potential employer must have posted their opening on those websites for at least two months without finding a suitable candidate. I assume, hopefully, this is a either-or situation, as there are almost no jobs in the EURES database for Ireland (100 jobs across all industries, and over half of them seem to be for French or Finnish speakers).

Finally, a list of ineligible occupations: http://www.djei.ie/labour/workpermits/elements/ineligible.htm

Hopefully I'll update this with more resources as I progress (namely other employment databases/job searching resources). If anyone else has resources, that would be fantastic as well.