DUBLIN, Aug 31 Reuters Ireland39;s unemployment rate rose slightly in August, to 4.3 from the 21year low of 4.2 a month earlier, Central Statistics Office CSO data showed on Wednesday.

The jobless rate has bounced up and down on a monthly basis this year but the falls have been greater in a tightening labour market and reduced the rate from 5.5 a year ago towards the record low of 3.9 reached in October 2000.

Reporting by Padraic Halpin

Source Reuters