Tesco Ireland sales dip by 5.5%

Sales at Tesco Ireland fell 5.5% — on a like-for-like basis — in the three months to the end of May; the first quarter of the group’s financial year.

The grocery retail giant only saw any sales growth in four of its 11 regions outside of its core UK operations.

However, the performance in Ireland was seen as an improvement, given that in the preceding three-month period sales dipped by 6.4%.