‘Spread jobs of foreign firms’

Just over half of all jobs created in Ireland by foreign direct investment (FDI) last year were in locations outside of Dublin.

There were 199,877 people employed in Ireland last year by overseas companies and 11,842 of these represented newly-created jobs in 2016.

Of the new jobs, 5,641 were created in Dublin and the Mid-East, 1,827 were created in the South-West, 1,664 went to the West, and a further 1,516 were created in the Mid-West.