Irish consumer spending rises +2.5% year-on-year in July – fastest growth since March
Growth of spending by households in Ireland continued to gather pace at the start of the third quarter of the year. Visa's Irish Consumer Spending Index, which measures expenditure across all payment types (cash, cheques and electronic payments), signalled a +2.5% year-on-year increase in expenditure in July, up from +1.8% in June.