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57,100 people arrived into Ireland from overseas last month

Jonathan Duane
Jonathan Duane

12:09 28 Jul 2020


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The most arrivals came from the UK.

57,100 people arrived into the country from overseas last month, according to the latest figures from The Central Statistics Office for June.

Conversely, there 73,900 departures for the month, marking a huge drop of 96 per cent on the same month last year.

Of the 57,100 people arriving in Ireland, 40,200 (70.4 per cent) arrived by air and 16,900 (29.6 per cent) arrived by sea. Of the 73,900 people departing Ireland, 53,100 (71.8 per cent) departed by air and 20,800 (28.2 per cent) departed by sea.

The CSO said the “most important staging countries” for people travelling overseas to Ireland were Great Britain (32,300), the Netherlands (4,400) and Germany (3,900).

While for people travelling overseas from Ireland, Great Britain (36,800), Germany (6,600) and the Netherlands (6,200) were the most popular.

For the year-to-date (January-June), 3,186,700 people arrived in Ireland from overseas and 3,173,300 people departed. These represent decreases of 65.9 per cent and 66.6 per cent respectively compared to the same period in 2019.


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