{"id":204998,"date":"2025-12-22T11:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/204998\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:25:10","slug":"82-babies-e15m-in-consoles-and-966000-bottles-of-prosecco-irelands-christmas-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/204998\/","title":{"rendered":"82 Babies, \u20ac15M in Consoles and 966,000 Bottles of Prosecco: Ireland\u2019s Christmas by the Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c103.ie\/news\/c103-news-and-sport\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All C103 News &amp; Sport<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6949290304fe2.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    via Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            CSO has been sharing seasonal stats on social media this festive season.\n        <\/p>\n<p>With the final post planned for tomorrow, Tuesday 23 December, some of the figures have already been released.<\/p>\n<p>  Ireland imported \u20ac2.1 million worth of Prosecco in December 2024\u2014over 966,000 bottles\u2014almost double the value of Champagne imports, which stood at \u20ac1.4 million (about 88,000 bottles).<br \/>\n  Between October and December 2024, 9.2 million people passed through Irish airports.<br \/>\n  Foreign visitors had 3.9 million overnight stays in December 2024, with an average stay of 9.9 nights.<br \/>\n  A festive shout-out to the 17,000 postal and courier workers recorded in Census 2022, who will be particularly busy over the holidays.<br \/>\n  We lit up homes and businesses with 36 tonnes of Christmas lighting imported in December 2024, valued at approximately \u20ac882,000.<br \/>\n  Ireland exported 245 tonnes of fresh Christmas trees during the month.<br \/>\n  \u20ac2.1 million worth of Christmas items\u2014including baubles and decorations\u2014were imported in December 2024.<br \/>\n  1,670 couples got married in December 2024, with Friday proving the most popular day to tie the knot.<br \/>\n  Over \u20ac264,000 worth of electric toy cars and trains were imported in December 2024.<br \/>\n  Imports of dolls\u2019 prams, pedal cars, and trikes topped \u20ac1.1 million.<br \/>\n  Ireland imported nearly \u20ac15 million worth of video game consoles in December 2024.<br \/>\n  On Christmas Day 2024, 82 babies were born\u201439 girls and 43 boys.<\/p>\n<p>From sparkling Prosecco to twinkling lights and joyful newborns, these statistics provide a snapshot of Ireland\u2019s festive season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=73d8e170-a3ae-463d-83cc-e709e59ffa9c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68da98f341122.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All C103 News &amp; Sport via Getty CSO has been sharing seasonal stats on social media this festive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44153,44155,44154,44156,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-204998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-c103","tag-c103-homepage","tag-cork-103","tag-cork-radio-station","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204998","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=204998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}