Trips to Ireland up 61,000

There were 497,700 trips into Ireland last December, compared to 436,200 in December 2004, an increase of 61,500, according to figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

Between January and December 2005, there were 6,977,700 trips into Ireland, an increase of 403,200 on the 2004 total of 6,574,500.