County recorded three visits in 2025 as IDA client employment fell 2.1 per cent
Emmett Corcoran
Roscommon recorded just one IDA Ireland site visit during the first quarter of 2026, according to figures provided in a recent parliamentary exchange.
The latest figure follows three IDA site visits to the county during the whole of 2025. Since 2021, Roscommon has recorded 19 visits, compared with 12 in Longford, seven in Leitrim and 190 in Galway.
The figures, supplied by Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Peter Burke, also show that employment in IDA Ireland client companies in Roscommon fell during 2025.
A total of 1,625 people were employed in IDA client companies in the county last year, down 35, or 2.1 per cent, from 1,660 in 2024. Employment remained slightly above the 1,589 jobs recorded in 2021.
Based on 2022 Census population figures, Roscommon had approximately 23 IDA-supported jobs per 1,000 people in 2025.
That was well below the national rate of 61 jobs per 1,000 people and also lower than neighbouring
Longford and Leitrim, which both recorded 34. Galway had 92 IDA-supported jobs per 1,000 people.
In gross employment terms, IDA client companies employed 1,572 people in Longford and 1,196 in Leitrim during 2025, while Galway recorded 25,430.
Nationally, employment in IDA client companies stood at 312,468 in 2025, an increase of 1.5 per cent on the previous year.
The figures indicate that while Roscommon’s IDA-supported employment has remained broadly stable in recent years, the county continues to lag considerably behind the national average on a per-capita basis.
