Overseas trips to Ireland up 13% in March

There were 616,100 overseas trips to Ireland in March 2005 compared with 545,900 in the same month last year, an increase of 13%, the CSO revealed today.

In the year to date to the end of March 2005 there were 1,796,500 overseas trips to Ireland, an increase of 6% on the figure of 1,699,600 for the first three months of 2004.