Unemployment has increased by 13,300 in the past year according to the latest figures from the CSO.
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It brings the total number of people without a job in the country
to 309 thousand.
The Quarterly national household survey shows that the number of people working fell by 1 percent or 18-thousand in the year to March.
And in the first three months of this year employment fell by more than 7-thousand.