98 PER CENT INCREASE IN REDUNDANCIES IN GALWAY

Date Published: 05-Aug-2009

New figures from the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment show that two thousand 212 people have been made redundant so far this year in GalwayThat's a 98 per cent increase on the number of redundancies between January and July last yearHowever it's considerably better that the national average rate of increase in redundancies which is 142 per centMonaghan is the county least affected by the downturn with a rate of increase in redundancy of 35 per cent The worst affected counties are Kilkenny and Wicklow with an increase of 208 per cent in the first seven months of this year compared to last year