Irish COVID-19 emergency jobless claims fall 6% in a week

DUBLIN (Reuters) - The number of people claiming emergency coronavirus-related unemployment payments in Ireland fell 6% in a week as the economy began to slowly reopen, data showed on Tuesday.The number receiving the temporary unemployment payment fell to 543,000, from 579,000 a week ago, while the number of workers signed up to a separate government wage-subsidy scheme increased to 508,000, from 482,000 a week ago, as people returned to work.The weekly data was the first to fully cover workers..