There were 23,593 redundancies reported in Ireland in the first four months of 2010. This is comparable to the average annual number of redundancies that occurred in the five years between 2004 and 2008. The level of redundancies increased from 40,607 in 2008 (1.93% of the number at work) to 77,001 last year (3.97% of the number at work).
Some may take heart in the trend of reported redundancies in 2010. The year-to-year figures for February, March and April show an improvement of 3.7%, 12.9% and 14.6% when compared to the corresponding month in 2009. But these trends don’t conceal a widening of the sector base, from construction, in which redundancies are occurring.
Sector spread
| TOTAL | % ALL REDUNDANCIES | |
| Agriculture, forestry and fisheries | 378 | 1.6% |
| Energy and water | 134 | 0.6% |
| Extraction industry (chemical products) | 126 | 0.5% |
| Metal, manufacturing and engineering | 608 | 2.6% |
| Other manufacturing | 4,801 | 20.3% |
| Building and civil engineering | 5,230 | 22.2% |
| Transport and communications | 1,075 | 4.6% |
| Other services | 8,723 | 37.0% |
| Banking, finance and insurance | 1,460 | 6.2% |
| TOTAL | 23,593 |
Location spread, Jan – Apr 2010
| NUMBER | % | |
| Carlow | 244 | 0.7% |
| Cavan | 189 | 0.6% |
| Clare | 524 | 1.6% |
| Cork | 3,000 | 9.1% |
| Donegal | 438 | 1.3% |
| Dublin, city and county | 9,422 | 29.0% |
| Galway | 719 | 2.2% |
| Kerry | 572 | 1.7% |
| Kildare | 1,328 | 4.0% |
| Kilkenny | 409 | 1.2% |
| Laois | 206 | 0.6% |
| Leitrim | 56 | 0.2% |
| Limerick | 1,614 | 4.9% |
| Longford | 151 | 0.5% |
| Louth | 423 | 1.4% |
| Mayo | 316 | 1.0% |
| Meath | 674 | 2.0% |
| Monaghan | 278 | 0.8% |
| Offaly | 331 | 1.0% |
| Roscommon | 129 | 0.4% |
| Sligo | 165 | 0.5% |
| Tipperary | 592 | 1.8% |
| Waterford | 303 | 0.9% |
| Westmeath | 538 | 1.6% |
| Wexford | 538 | 1.6% |
| Wicklow | 420 | 1.3% |
| 23,593 |
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