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Irish unemployment rate unchanged at 4.8% in December – Metro US

Irish unemployment rate unchanged at 4.8% in December

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s unemployment rate held steady at 4.8% for the third month in a row in December, data from the Central Statistics Office showed on Tuesday.

That was down from 5.5% a year ago as the European Union’s fastest growing economy approaches full employment, and from a peak of 16% in 2012 in the wake of the global financial crisis.

(Reporting by Conor Humphries, editing by Padraic Halpin)