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Irish inflation rose to 1.8% in August, flash estimate shows
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on September 1, 2025
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on September 1, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 22, 2026
Irish inflation rose to 1.8% in August, the highest since April, with core HICP at 1.9%. This marks a year-on-year increase from 1.6% in July.
DUBLIN (Reuters) -Irish consumer prices rose 1.8% year-on-year in August from 1.6% a month earlier, the highest rate since April, a flash estimate of the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices showed on Monday.
Core Irish HICP, which excludes energy and unprocessed food, increased to 1.9%, from 1.7% in July.
(Writing by Conor Humphries, editing by Padraic Halpin)
Inflation is the rate at which the general level of prices for goods and services rises, eroding purchasing power.
The HICP is an index that measures the changes in prices of a basket of consumer goods and services across the Eurozone.
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