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<\/p>\nNew figures from the Central Statistics Office shows that annual consumer price inflation rose to a 21-month high of 3.2% in November from 2.9% in October.<\/p>\n
This is the highest annual rate of inflation since February 2024 when the rate was 3.4%.<\/p>\n
The CSO said the biggest increases in the 12 months to November were seen in the Education sector, with prices there up 8.9% due to an increase in third-level education costs.<\/p>\n
Clothing & Footwear prices also increased by 4.4% on an annual basis in November, while the price of Food & Non-Alcoholic Beverages rose by 4.3% and prices in Restaurants & Hotels were up 3.6%.<\/p>\n
Today’s figures show that the price of beef and veal soared by 23.9% in November, while butter prices jumped over 10%, chocolate prices were up 11.5% and coffee prices increased by 12.4%.<\/p>\n
The CSO said that on a monthly basis, the divisions seeing the biggest increases were Clothing & Footwear, with prices up 1.2%, while Miscellaneous Goods & Services rose by 0.5% on the back of a rise in the cost of jewellery, clocks and watches and higher health insurance premiums.<\/p>\n
The CSO today also published its National Average Prices for selected goods and services for November which showed that the national average price for a large white sliced pan increased by nine cents, while the same size brown sliced pan increased by a cent in the year to November. <\/p>\n
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Spaghetti per 500g also rose by a cent in the year, while the average price for 2.5kg of potatoes was down 22 cents.<\/p>\n
The CSO said the national average price of full fat milk per 2 litres was up 11 cents in the year, while butter per pound rose by 55 cents and the average price of Irish cheddar per kg increased by 62 cents.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the national average price of a take-home 50cl can of lager at \u20ac2.39 was down three cents from November 2024, while a take-home 50cl can of cider at \u20ac2.71 was up three cents.<\/p>\n
And the national average price of a pint of stout in licensed premises was \u20ac6.08, up 26 cents in the year, while a pint of lager was \u20ac6.51, up 25 cents compared with November 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New figures from the Central Statistics Office shows that annual consumer price inflation rose to a 21-month high…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-186653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}