Locked-down savers help lift Irish household wealth as tax revenues take lockdown hit

The overall wealth of Irish households climbed to a record €831bn, or €166,930 per person, the Central Bank said, boosted by locked-down savers who couldn't spend, and helped by a stockmarket-rise to pensions and house prices that escaped a once feared rout.  

The aggregate figures are a snapshot at the end of September, which the Central Bank and other economists caution say little about the distribution of wealth and how individual households fared as unemployment surged during the crisis.