{"id":575944,"date":"2026-07-30T19:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575944\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T19:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:10:21","slug":"inflation-holds-steady-in-july-as-energy-prices-fell-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575944\/","title":{"rendered":"Inflation holds steady in July as energy prices fell \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cost-of-living\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cost-of-living\/\">Inflation<\/a> held steady in July, as relative calm in the Middle East saw energy prices dip compared to a month earlier. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Prices were unchanged between June and July, according to data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/central-statistics-office\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/central-statistics-office\/\">Central Statistics Office (CSO) <\/a>published on Thursday. They remain 3.1 per cent higher than a year ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cLooking at the components of the flash HICP (harmonised index of consumer prices) in Ireland for July 2026, energy prices are estimated to have decreased by 1.7 per cent in the month and gone up by 6.5 per cent since July 2025,\u201d CSO statistician Anthony Dawson said. \u201cThe HICP excluding energy and unprocessed food prices, is estimated to have risen by 2.9 per cent since July 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Excluding energy prices and unprocessed food \u2013 traditionally among the most volatile of the consumer prices index components, inflation is 2.9 per cent higher than a year ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inflation held steady in July, as relative calm in the Middle East saw energy prices dip compared to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,14787,943,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-575944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-central-statistics-office","tag-cost-of-living","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575944","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=575944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}