Over 80% of Irish households have access to the web

Virtually every house in Ireland now has a computer, with well over half of the population using the internet every day.

The latest figures on Ireland’s information society from the CSO show 83% of households now have access to a computer in the home, up from 70% in 2008.

Some 81% of homes also have access to the internet, an increase of almost 20% on four years ago.