Figures show rise in employment for 2019, while long-term unemployment accounts for third of total

Data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) shows that employment went up last year.

The CSO's Labour Force Survey (LFS) for the final three months of 2019 records a 3.5% rise in employment for the whole year to 2,361,200. Meaning there were 79,900 more people employed at the end of 2019, when compared to the start of the year.