Unemployment grows slightly in Galway
Galway Bay fm newsroom - Unemployment in Galway increased slightly last month, according to the Central Statistics Office.There were 20 thousand 390 people out of work in the city and county at the end of January, an increase of just over 200 on the previous month.
The biggest increase in unemployment last month was in the city where an extra 145 people joined the Live Register.The city now has an unemployment figure of just over 10 thousand.The biggest increase in the county was in Ballinasloe where 34 more people signed on.The unemployment figure for Ballinasloe in January was just under 2 thousand 400.There was a slight increase of 14 in Clifden's jobless figure in January.There are now just over 12 hundred people out of work in Clifden.There was a similiar increase in unemployment in Gort, where 13 more people signed on in January.The jobless figure for Gort now stands at just over 14 hundred.Loughrea saw 10 more people join the Live Register last month, bringing it's unemployment figure to just over 2 thousand 200.The only are where unemployment stayed the same was Tuam, where there are still just over 3 thousand people out of work.This is the second consecutive increase in unemployment in Galway in the past few months.There are now almost 20 thousand 400 people out of work here, a decrease of almost 2 thousand on the same period last year.