{"id":71186,"date":"2025-10-10T07:11:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/71186\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T07:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T07:11:24","slug":"consumer-prices-rise-by-2-7-per-cent-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/71186\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer prices rise by 2.7 per cent in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"249\" data-end=\"408\">Consumer prices rose to 2.7 per cent in September, up from 2.0 per cent in August, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"410\" data-end=\"524\">It marks the highest level of inflation since March 2024, when prices were rising at an annual rate of 2.9 per cent.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"526\" data-end=\"637\">When energy and unprocessed food are excluded, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) &#8211; which tracks the average cost of everyday goods and services &#8211; stood slightly higher at 2.8 per cent.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"639\" data-end=\"894\">The steepest annual increases were seen in Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages at 4.7 per cent, and Miscellaneous Goods and Services with a rise 3.7 per cent), while the cost of Furnishings and Household Equipment was the only category to fall, down 0.6 per cent on the year.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"639\" data-end=\"894\">On a monthly basis, consumer prices fell by 0.2 per cent between August and September.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"not-prose no-underline\" data-action=\"click\" data-category=\"Read more article clicked\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/chicken-up-six-euro-in-three-years-crazy-inflation-outlined-to-dail-1776833.html\" data-value=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/chicken-up-six-euro-in-three-years-crazy-inflation-outlined-to-dail-1776833.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2-79734571-1-e1750781302467.jpg\" class=\"rounded-sm object-contain bg-transparent z-10 w-full h-full not-prose\" alt=\"Chicken Up \u20ac6 In Three Years: \u2018Crazy\u2019 Inflation Outlined To D\u00e1il\" width=\"278\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Chicken up \u20ac6 in three years: \u2018Crazy\u2019 inflation outlined to D\u00e1il<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"639\" data-end=\"894\">The biggest declines were in Transport (-1.8 per cent) and Recreation and Culture (-1.6 per cent), partly offset by higher prices for Clothing and Footwear (+2.4 per cent) and Miscellaneous Goods and Services rose by 0.5 per cent.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"639\" data-end=\"894\">In September 2025, the most significant monthly price reductions were in Transport at 1.8%, and Recreation &amp; Culture with a drop of 1.6 per cent.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"639\" data-end=\"894\">The decrease in Transport was due to lower airfares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consumer prices rose to 2.7 per cent in September, up from 2.0 per cent in August, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-71186","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\/71186","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=71186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}