Condoms, energy drinks, avocados: CSO gives snapshot of our changing shopping history 

The planned update in 2021 of the basket of goods used by the Central Statistics Office was delayed due to covid-19. File picture

What do condoms, energy drinks and avocados all have in common?

All of them have been added to the long list of things used to calculate the country’s inflation rate in recent decades, to reflect what the Irish public is spending its money on.