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Retail sales in Ireland rose on an annual basis in March, helped by an easing of Covid-19 curbs, numbers on Thursday showed.
According to the Central Statistics Office, retail sales rose 2.9% year-on-year in March, in line with February's annual growth.
CSO said: ‘Several sectors showed very large annual increases in the volume of sales, compared with March 2021 when a full lockdown of non-essential retail and services was in force.’
Sales in bars were up more than seven-fold from a year earlier.
‘Bars were closed in March 2021 except where there were ancillary services. Despite the large recovery in March 2022 over the previous year, Bar sales remained 40% lower than their pre-Covid-19 level in February 2020,’ CSO added.
On a monthly basis, Ireland's retail sales rose 0.6% in March, following a 1.4% increase in February.
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