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IRISH PEOPLE ARE spending more on alcohol and less on clothes, new figures from the Central Statistics Office have shown.
Despite the state of the country’s finances, there was €6.3 billion spent on alcohol last year, up 1.2 per cent on 2011.
That figure makes up over 7.7 per cent of all personal expenditure, which totalled €82.6 billion, in the country, the figures reveal.
Sales of clothing and footwear dropped from €3.1 billion in 2011 to €2.9 billion in 2012, while people also spent less on personal transport, communication and durable goods.
There was also a 0.8 per cent rise in the amount spent on food, a 1.9 per cent rise in the amount spent on non-alcoholic beverages, a 2.5 per cent rise in recreational and educational spending and a 2.6 rise in the amount people are spending on housing.
The sharpest rise is in the amount spent on fuel and power, which rose 7.9 per cent.
Spending on tobacco fell by 2.4 per cent, while miscellaneous spending is down 2 per cent.
Expenditure outside of the state dropped 5.2 per cent, but spending by non-residents dropped 1.5 per cent.
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Bunch of drunk naked people stumbling around
Who needs pants when you have Vodka
I used to go into a clothes shop see a top and count the price up in the number of pints I’d be able to get if I didnt buy it
Ahh, ya can’t bate a bit of sunshine and a few flagins in the nip. Life doesn’t get any better.
Fuel and power, rose by 7.9 percent,Thats why theres no spondulix for clothes.
Or people rather get pissed than clothe themselves.
More alcohol… Less clothes… Deadly! :)
Thought alcohol sales would decrease seeing as child benefit has gone through a couple of cuts.
Maybe that’s the case in your household!
Let the chidren buy their own booze!
Sad sad person
Good to see the Irish have their priorities right
Loads more drunken streakers about so…
Course alcohol sales are up no one has a stitch to wear out !!!!
Good pair of jeans in penneys €11, shirt €9, good quality too, that’s four pints or 20 cans in aldi.
I’ll take the clothes, wash myself and go to jerry flanneries.
Good pair of jeans, good quality?? My god , u mustn’t get out much.
checked them against a €25 pair in dunnes and a €50 pair in other places, they’re better than dunnes and almost as good as a €50 pair.
I was surprised myself, penneys actually have some good stuff now, if you avoid the disposable tshirts and footwear.
Is the volume of booze sold up or just the price?
I’m a moderate drinker in Irish terms. I never drink more than a 100 pints a week.
I’m scratching my head because I can’t figure out why I have no money left for clothes.
You should be scratching your head trying to figure out where you left your clothes
Lol!
Forget clothes six-packs of dutch gold should come with a free bar of soap
I’ll trade you the shirt off my back for a bottle of Ouzo.
Would the reason people are spending less on clothes not be because many are turning to the Internet for their purchases as its cheaper?
So maybe the statistics are skewed, we’re not buying less clothing just we’ve now an even cheaper way to get them?
So as drink consumption rise’s, knickers dropping, brilliant
Harp would turn me teetotal :(
But (hic) it’s me only comfort.
What you expect after Slane?
In other news, one random statistic is mentioned with another random statistic, suggesting that the 2 statistics are interlinked. Correlation does not imply causation….
+ 57.2%
Does that mean we are a nation of underdressed and boozed up ???? Scary thought !
Sounds about right most of the time I’m drunk,I’m naked
Ha ha mark bit too much info there .
So, spending on alcohol went up 1.2% last year – inflation was 6.2%
Adjusted, the spend is down 5%. Is that good news or bad? Not sure.
Most of the items where spending went up match the inflation figure.
My favourite line in the piece, [spending on alcohol] makes up over 7.7 per cent of all personal expenditure [snip] the figures reveal.
Reveal? Its within 0.1% of that every year!!
My first thought was, “it must be autumn so.”
So we’re a little more pissed but not as well dressed when we’re doing it!
Buy booze and use the wrapping it comes in to make a jumper or a pair of pants. Both problems solved!
I’d rather be naked and drunk.
Chuckle every time when I think about a picture during the floods of the guys on the barstools outside the pub with water up to their barstools! Not a care in the world of the flood nor their cloths! Now that’s Irish culture!
I’ve been walking around in the nip, drinking devils bit for months. Glad the trend’s coming on.
I think that’s a great idea more drink less clothes
That’s why you never see Ireland on Star Trek, bunch of drunks
Colm Meaney would disagree!
His character was from Newfoundland
I would like to know what this miscellaneous spending is!!!
Drink reasonably and try to only have stuff brewed/distilled in Ireland, that way the money will come back to your pocket eventually.
Buy 2nd hand or cheaply. Ya seriously o not need to be kitted out in designer head to toe ffs.
Use savings to pay off debt or build cushion.
I work in an off licence. The article headline is incorrect and misleading. The volume of alcohol sold is significantly down on last year. It’s the price and profit that has increased, not the volume.
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