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Limerick outshines the rest of the country in job vacancy rate

LIMERICK is one of the top performers in business growth, with a 43% increase job vacancies over the past three months, a new report shows. According to IrishJobs.ie-commissioned report, authored by economists at Dublin City University and Maynooth ...

31 Oct 2017 at 14:12

National News

Employment rates in Ireland hit highest level since records began

The number of people in employment is Ireland is now at the highest rate since records began, despite a slight increase in the youth employment rate in the second quarter of the year. Latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) shows ...

24 Aug 2023 at 14:28

National News

Rally outside Leinster House calls for increase in wage for young workers

A rally was held outside the gates of Leinster House calling on the Dail to support the passage of a People Before Profit (PBP) Bill for the national minimum wage for young workers. The rally, which preceded debate on the Bill within the Dail, ...

14 Jun 2023 at 12:14

National News

Childcare industry struggling to find staff as stress and workload increases, survey finds

A survey of over 2,000 child care providers last month by trade union Siptu has found that most have vacancies for staff, and almost all of them say that recruitment is negatively affecting the care they offer. Darragh O'Connor, head of ...

20 Apr 2023 at 11:43

National News

Employment levels in Ireland reach record high

Employment figures in Ireland have reached a record high, and now stand at the highest since records began. The number of persons aged 15-89 years in employment increased by 68,600 or 2.7% to 2,574,500 persons in the 12 months to Q4 ...

23 Feb 2023 at 12:21

Sport

Benjamin Mendy urges Man City to do ‘honourable thing’ after winning pay claim

Benjamin Mendy says he is “delighted” after his former club Manchester City was ordered by a judge to pay him around £8.5 million for wrongly stopping his pay. Mendy, 30, also called on the club to do the “honourable thing” and pay ...

06 Nov 2024 at 14:43

National News

O'Gorman announces almost €3m funding for migrant employment supports

Grants providing employment supports for migrants worth almost €3 million have been announced by the government. The grants - totalling €2.7 million - were announced yesterday (November 25) by the Minister for Children, Equality, ...

26 Nov 2022 at 14:25

Home

Fears for hundreds of jobs at Shannon firm

STAFF at Molex in Shannon are bracing themselves for job losses with a meeting with management scheduled for this afternoon. Around 400 people work at the US multi-national, based in the Shannon Industrial Estate, a significant ...

22 Oct 2019 at 14:08

Sport

Rico Quitongo loses race discrimination claim against Airdrieonians

Rico Quitongo has described losing his race discrimination claim against his former club as a “bitter blow”. The 23-year-old took Airdrieonians and one of its directors, Paul Hetherington, to an employment tribunal over ...

24 Nov 2022 at 16:20

Crime and Courts

Passenger whose necklace was stolen says Limerick bus driver ‘didn’t deserve’ sacking

A PASSENGER who had their necklace stolen on a bus has said the bus driver who retrieved it “didn’t deserve” to be sacked. Mark Hehir, 62, was fired by Metroline after he chased down a thief who had stolen the ...

03 Feb 2026 at 17:00

National News

CSO reveals fewer young people employed in June compared to month prior

Fewer Irish young people were employed in June 2022 compared to a month prior. That's according to the latest data release from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), which shows 5.4% of 15-24 year olds were ...

06 Jul 2022 at 13:48

National News

Jobs market recovery post-Covid likely due to state intervention and pandemic welfare supports, says study

Employment rates rose for almost all groups of people post-pandemic, while unemployment and labour market inactivity generally fell, new findings show. A new study from the Irish Human Rights and Equality ...

24 Apr 2024 at 11:46

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