Ireland by county
Employment permits in County Offaly
431 employment permits in 2026, 1.4% of the national total, ranked 14 of 27 by county.
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What the numbers say
431 permits for County Offaly by the end of September 2026, already 120% of the 358 issued in the whole of 2025.
At the current pace 2026 would finish around 575, up 61% on 2025.
The busiest full year on record was 2022 with 575 permits. In 2010 the figure was 51. That is a 11.3-fold rise.
Year by year
Offaly since 2010
51
2010
14
2011
17
2012
9
2013
27
2014
46
2015
71
2016
80
2017
128
2018
152
2019
299
2020
170
2021
575
2022
328
2023
484
2024
358
2025
431
2026
53 applications refused in 2026.
All countys in 2026
Employers
Biggest permit users in Offaly
RI238permits in 20261,932 over 9 years
LCLotus Care LimitedOffaly38permits in 202678 over 3 years- TR14permits in 202666 over 10 years
ECEliza Care LimitedOffaly13permits in 2026121 over 16 years
UI12permits in 202669 over 9 years
MC10permits in 2026157 over 9 years
ML8permits in 202680 over 8 years
MHMullally Haulage LimitedOffaly7permits in 202642 over 5 years
BP4permits in 202611 over 4 years
EA3permits in 202622 over 4 years- HH3permits in 20265 over 2 years
- CFCannakill Farm LimitedOffaly2permits in 202623 over 4 years
- AA2permits in 202610 over 4 years
- GW2permits in 20268 over 3 years
- CLCloughamon LtdOffaly2permits in 20266 over 2 years
CMChurchview Motors LtdOffaly2permits in 20264 over 2 years- EA2permits in 20264 over 2 years
CACanbe LimitedOffaly1permits in 202628 over 8 years
FJFJS Joinery LimitedOffaly1permits in 202624 over 7 years
CCCondron Concrete LimitedOffaly1permits in 202618 over 5 years
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Source: Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Employment Permit Statistics. Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. A permit issued to a company is a record of a past application. It is not a vacancy and not a promise of sponsorship.
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