LOUGHREA AND BALLINASLOE WORST HIT IN GALWAY BY SOARING UMNEMPLOYMENT

Date Published: 03-Apr-2009

Loughrea is the worst hit by soaring unemployment in Galway. The latest figures on the live register show there's been a 137 per cent rise in umemployment in the past year. An extra 870 people in Galway joined the live register last month, bringing the total jobless figure in the county to 21,000. That's up 86 per cent on last year.