Unemployment in the State currently stands at 5 per cent as 147,400 people found themselves out of work, according to new data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO). Photograph: iStock

Unemployment in the State currently stands at 5 per cent as 147,400 people found themselves out of work, according to new data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), with youth unemployment proving especially intractable.

“The traditional July spike in youth unemployment, which usually eases by autumn, has not done so this year,”

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