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Irish retail sales up 4.9 percent year-on-year in March

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Irish retail sales up 4.9 percent year-on-year in March
A woman stands in the doorway of a shop selling cloth trimmings in Dundalk, Ireland June 28, 2018. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne   -   Copyright  CLODAGH KILCOYNE(Reuters)
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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish retail sales posted annual growth of 4.9 percent in March, but were 0.8 percent lower month-on-month, the Central Statistics Office said on Monday.

Excluding car sales which have been volatile in recent years, volumes grew by 8.2 percent from a year earlier – the highest annual rise in over three years – and by 1.2 percent compared to the previous month.

(Reporting by Conor Humphries, editing by Padraic Halpin)

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