Enterprise Ireland helps start-ups employ 10,000 extra workers in 2015

The State body charged with fostering indigenous enterprise can boast a record number of people at work in the companies it supports after a bumper 2015.

Enterprise Ireland-supported firms now employ more than 192,000 staff, after client companies created 21,118 jobs last year.

Once job losses are factored in, the net increase in those employed by these companies stands at 10,160.