Employment stats are good but there's a long way to go for Ireland to be working again

While now comfortably below the average eurozone jobless rate of 11.1%, Ireland still has some way to go before its rate drops to US and UK levels of 5.3% and 5.6%, respectively, writes Oliver Mangan

There seems no end to the good news on the Irish economy. Following on from recent figures, showing very strong GDP growth and rapidly improving public finances, come very impressive labour market statistics.

Data published by the CSO, last week, for the second quarter of 2015 show very strong job growth, with a continuing marked decline in unemployment.