The overall unemployment rate for January was 5.3 per cent

Ireland’s unemployment rate held steady at its ten-year-low during January despite the uncertainty surrounding Brexit.

The latest edition of the Central Statistics Office’s unemployment figures show the overall rate holding steady at 5.3 per cent, down from the 6 per cent rate recorded in January last year. That translates to an overall level of 127,300 for January 2019, a marginal reduction from the 127,900 last December.

In January the overall unemployment rate was 5.2 per cent, or 67,600 for males, down 0.1 per cent from the previous month and down from the 6.1 per cent seen in January 2018.

For females the rate was 5.4 per cent, or 59,700, a minor increase from December’s figure, unchanged from the month before and down from 5.8 per