Unemployment fell by almost 16 percent in 2014, with 213,600 people out of work by the end of the year.

That means an unemployment rate of 10.4 percent at the end of 2014 – with 39 thousand less unemployed in Ireland across the year.

The Central Statistics Office has published its Quarterly National Household Survey for the last quarter of 2014 – which also shows a 1.5 percent growth in the number of people working.

Senior statistician with the CSO, Brian Ring explains how many men and women were out of work;