While the register is not a measure of unemployment as people with part-time work can be entitled to benefits, it does track trends in the labour market.<\/p>\n
The unadjusted Live Register total stood at 176,935 in June, of which 54.3 per cent were male and 72.3 per cent were Irish. <\/p>\n
This is an increase of 4,272 people or 2.5 per cent when compared with June last year.<\/p>\n
The 25-34 age cohort made up the largest number of those on the register at 42,864 people or 24.2 per cent of the total.<\/p>\n
[\u00a0At least 60 jobs expected to go at Microsoft\u2019s Irish operationsOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n The counties that recorded the largest percentage increases in the number of people on the Live Register in the 12 months to June were Waterford (6.8 per cent) and Longford (6.7 per cent), while the largest decreases were in Monaghan (4.8 per cent) and Clare (3.9 per cent).<\/p>\n The CSO said there were 122,458 people on the register for less than one year, accounting for 69 per cent of the total.<\/p>\n The evolution of AI (artificial intelligence) <\/a>is expected to result in downsizing, particularly in the tech sector.<\/p>\n Microsoft<\/a>, Meta<\/a>, Oracle<\/a> and TikTok<\/a> have in recent weeks announced job losses.<\/p>\n TikTok last week said it planned to cut jobs at its Irish office, with up to 300 redundancies being signalled.<\/p>\n Meta said it would shed up to 350 roles from its Irish workforce as part of a wider cull across the business, with heavy investment in AI being blamed for the retrenchment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of people on the Live Register rose marginally in June amid concern Ireland\u2019s labour market is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,1412,179,18,19,17,1722,305,12602,1150],"class_list":["post-575152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-central-statistics-office","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-meta","tag-microsoft","tag-oracle","tag-tiktok"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116884601665927132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783447096_135_1754647931518-c07d65db-55b5-463e-ae51-976300c5837e.jpeg\"\/)
The 9 per cent VAT rate has been welcomed by restaurants but does the hospitality sector actually need it?<\/p>\n