The number of people in employment in Ireland totalled 2,255,000 in the second quarter of the year, which is up 3.4% from the same quarter last year.
The figures are published by the Central Statistics Office in their Labour Force Survey.
The Department of Finance said it was the highest level of employment ever within the State.
The survey found that unemployment was down 10.1% to 144,300 in the year to Q2, 2018. When seasonally adjusted, the unemployment rate fell from 5.9% to 5.8% over the quarter, while the seasonally adjusted number of persons unemployed was 139,300.
Long term unemployment, which refers to people unemployed for one year or more, accounted for 33.9% of total unemployment in Q2 2018.
The total number of people in the labour force is now 2,399,300, up 2.5% or 57,900 from Q2 2017. The number of people not in the labour force is 1,448,900 which is up 0.3% or 4,900 from a year earlier.
