Prices up 2.8% overall in the last 12 months, CSO reveals

Many of the staples bought by most households all rose in price last year, some of them by a significant margin. File picture

Food, clothes, health insurance, a cup of coffee, and the price of a pint — all of them are getting more expensive and in some cases, surging at double or triple the rate of general price inflation in the economy, new figures have revealed.

In its Consumer Price Index, giving full figures for 2025, the CSO confirmed that overall prices in the economy rose by 2.8% in the last 12 months.