Ireland receives 58,000 applications for emergency jobless payment
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland has so far received 58,000 applications for a new emergency welfare payment for employees and self-employed people who have lost their jobs or had hours cut as a result of coronavirus, its social protection minister said on Thursday.Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has estimated that 100,000 people or more - almost 5% of the workforce - could lose their jobs by the end of March and the government has called on any shuttered business that can keep paying their staff to..