Car sales push Irish retail sales sharply higher again

May 29, 2023
Car sales push Irish retail sales sharply higher again
Woman walks past the Central Bank of Ireland in Dublin

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Annual Irish retail sales volumes rose sharply again last month due to another surge in car sales, jumping 7.5% year-on-year, Central Statistics Office data showed on Monday.

When a 23.5% year-on-year increase in motor trades was excluded, retail sales rose by 0.5% month-on-month compared with a headline monthly increase of 2.8% and were 0.4% lower than April 2022.

(Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Alison Williams)

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