Working with CSO data in R

The Central Statistics Office produces a wide range of data about the Irish people. It can be filtered and extracted in a number of formats including CSV. This makes it ideal for importing into R.
For no specific reason I took the unemployment data for Ireland from 2002 to the present. This is what a financial crash looks like:

I am an R newbie, so the x-axis is a bit messed up, but you get the idea. I will fiddle with this a bit more in the coming days to see if I can find out anything interesting.