Irish workforce increases by 85,000 in six years

The number of people at work has increased by 85,000 since 2010. Half of that increase has occurred in the last year.

There were 1,976,500 people at work in the first quarter of 2016, 46,900 more than the corresponding period in 2015, says the Central Statistics Office.

The figure is 84,600 more than the 1,891,900 who had jobs in the first quarter of 2010.