Employment has been growing steadily since the jobless rate hit a high of 15.1 percent in early 2012 when Ireland was in an EU/IMF bailout, although figures showed on Tuesday that wages have continued to fall.
The number of people in work rose by 10,400 or 0.5 percent quarter-on-quarter compared to a 4,300 gain in the second quarter, according to Central Statistics Office data.
The largest annual increase in employment was in construction, an industry decimated during a property market collapse.