DROP IN NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED IN GALWAY

Date Published: 12-Oct-2012

There’s been a drop of almost eleven hundred in the number of people claiming the dole in Galway.

The most recent figures released by the Central Statistics Office reveal that 22,290 people are now on the live register in the city and county.

That’s down on the August figure of 23,831 and suggests that many may have come off the dole after returning to full time education.

In Ballinasloe, there was a drop of 102 on the live register compared to August with the number of unemployed now at 2,515.

69 people came off the dole queues in Clifden with 1,125 now unemployed.

94 people came off the live register in Gort, leaving the total without work there at 1442.

In Loughrea, 94 people also took their names off the register.

2,323 people are now registered unemployed in Loughrea.

Staying with the County, 171 people came off the live register in Tuam giving the total number of unemployed people there at 3,262.

In Galway City, an impressive 1,011 came off the dole queues.

The number of people without jobs in the city now stands at 11,623