The latest figures released by the CSO (www.cso.ie) say that Ireland’s Unemployment rate is at the highest it’s been for 3 years. The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment also issued new figures showing there were 2,305 redundancies in July. This brings the total for this year up to 15,054 - 8.3pc higher than last year. So the new government is having a hard time in office. New Senator Alan Kelly said “Today’s figures mean that the numbers on the Live Register have now increased by more than 20,000 in two months and are now at the highest level since July 2004“.
The national unemployment rate remains at 4.6pc, but the National Organisation of the Unemployed pointed to a striking gender difference in the latest figures, with 1,100 more men and 300 fewer women now on the register .
[...] may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Earlier this year we reported that the Irish unemployment rate was hovering around 4.6%, well now it has increased even more and has hit a 4 year high. Currently [...]
I think we are in for another bad year in 2008 with maybe even unemployment numbers hitting 25,0000 before the end of year. the celtic tiger is dead R.I.P
The ‘economic boom ‘ was merely the result of moving cica 2,000,000 foreigners into the country and the resulting explosion in tenement building. As there are still a number of these construction projects underway at a time when immigration has stalled, we may presume that FF are planning a further population increase to help out their friends in the building trade when the block is lifted on Romania and Bulgaria.
[...] in August 2007 we reported that the unemployment rate was at 4.7% and in November this rose further to give an unemployment rate of 4.8% . This begs the question [...]
i have umemployement for yeras i can,t get any where i have tried .the celtic tiger is a joke