Unemployment Falls To Eight Year Low

The number of people signing on the Live Register last month hit their lowest level since November 2008. New figures from the Central Statistics Office, show a monthly decrease of 2-thousand-8-hundred in November 2016, reducing the seasonally adjusted total to 285,600. The number of male claimants dropped by 1-point-4 per-cent last month, while the number of women signing on decreased by zero-point-3 per-cent.