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Ireland’s unemployment rate edged lower last month, numbers on Wednesday showed.
According to the Central Statistics Office, the jobless rate eased to 4.3% in September from 4.4% in August. August’s figure was revised from 4.3%.
‘The seasonally adjusted number of people unemployed was 124,300 in September 2024, compared with 125,300 in August 2024. There was a fall of 3,100 in the seasonally adjusted number of people unemployed in September 2024 when compared with a year earlier,’ CSO analyst Conor Delves said.
The jobless rate had stood at 4.5% in September of last year, remaining at that level until February of this year, when it improved to 4.1%. It then moved back upwards in successive months to hit 4.7% in July.
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