Ireland by county
Employment permits in County Tipperary
614 employment permits in 2026, 2% of the national total, ranked 12 of 27 by county.
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What the numbers say
614 permits for County Tipperary by the end of September 2026, already 94% of the 650 issued in the whole of 2025.
At the current pace 2026 would finish around 819, up 26% on 2025.
The busiest full year on record was 2024 with 703 permits. In 2010 the figure was 231. That is a 3-fold rise.
Year by year
Tipperary since 2010
231
2010
128
2011
72
2012
44
2013
83
2014
101
2015
152
2016
170
2017
199
2018
229
2019
224
2020
276
2021
542
2022
531
2023
703
2024
650
2025
614
2026
66 applications refused in 2026.
All countys in 2026
Employers
Biggest permit users in Tipperary
- STSouth Tipperary General HospitalTipperary47permits in 20261,331 over 11 years
- MGMSD International GmbHTipperary25permits in 2026307 over 9 years
RE12permits in 202656 over 5 years
DSDundrum Steel RHD LimitedTipperary10permits in 202646 over 6 years
AMAbbey Machinery LimitedTipperary9permits in 202675 over 6 years
ASAll Star Tiling LtdTipperary9permits in 202614 over 2 years
ADAidan Doherty Transport LtdTipperary8permits in 2026144 over 11 years
MSMcMahon's Concrete Products LtdTipperary8permits in 2026- ANAshlawn Nursing Home LimitedTipperary7permits in 202676 over 8 years
WPWilliam P. Browne LimitedTipperary7permits in 202631 over 5 years
MLMillbrae Lodge Nursing Home LimitedTipperary6permits in 202699 over 15 years
VMVilla Marie Nursing Home LtdTipperary6permits in 202641 over 8 years
BMB.M.C. (Nursing Home) LimitedTipperary6permits in 202624 over 7 years
AHAthassel House Stud LimitedTipperary6permits in 202615 over 3 years
EPESK Plant LtdTipperary6permits in 202611 over 2 years
LILeetherm Insulations LimitedTipperary6permits in 2026- DRDrescator LimitedTipperary5permits in 202687 over 16 years
OHOrmond Healthcare LtdTipperary5permits in 202634 over 4 years- MHM. Heffernan Engineering LimitedTipperary5permits in 202622 over 4 years
AEAtview Enterprises LimitedTipperary5permits in 202619 over 4 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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