Globally, around 375,000 layoffs have been announced in the last two years. In Ireland, an estimated 3,000 workers have lost their jobs, and there was a 10,000 fall in employment in quarter three of 2022. Photograph: Paulo Nunes dos Santos/Bloomberg The information and communication technology (ICT) sector has limited capacity to absorb further lay-offs in the wake of this year’s “right-sizing” of pandemic-fuelled employment expansion, a new Department of Finance report has found. Summer Economic Insights published by the department on Thursday noted that ICT was the “bright spot over the pandemic period”, but that the sector has moved “from...