# CSO

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# Money Money Money

Irish workers earn an average of €23 an hour and a yearly salary of €39,000, according to CSO figures

The sector with the lowest recorded hourly earnings was Accommodation and Food at €12.54 per hour.

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Jun 11th 2019, 12:27 PM

# Housing Crisis

Bedsits of the future or part of the solution?: Minister says co-living flats are just another option for people

Plans to build a block of 208 studio dwellings which would see dozens of people sharing one kitchen have been criticised.

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May 17th 2019, 2:34 PM

# Operation Thor

Garda stats show winter burglaries drop by 50% in four years

The latest stats have been released Under Reservation by the Central Statistics Office.

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May 13th 2019, 2:32 PM

# Crime

More than 2,270 women reported a rape or sexual assault to Gardaí last year

The majority of those who reported sexual assaults were female.

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Apr 17th 2019, 3:58 PM

# CSO

Irish exports to the UK have grown a lot in spite of ongoing Brexit uncertainty

Total goods exports to the UK increased by €166 million and amounted to a total €1.2 billion.

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Apr 16th 2019, 4:23 PM

# Love and Marriage

Brides and grooms are still getting older (but only in opposite sex marriages)

Same sex marriages still happen at a later age, but this is changing.

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Apr 10th 2019, 2:01 PM

Voices

Opinion: 64% of workers in Ireland earn less than the 'average' salary

Experts agree that the median average is a better indicator of typical salaries, so why do policymakers always focus on the mean average? writes Felim O’Rourke

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Apr 1st 2019, 7:00 AM

# CSO

Slightly fewer births as death rate increases in third quarter of 2018

The average age of first-time mothers was 31, up 0.2 years from the same period in the previous year.

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Mar 15th 2019, 2:05 PM

# Rising prices

Residential property prices have risen by 5.6% in the space of a year

In Dublin, residential property prices rose by 1.9% in the year to January.

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Mar 14th 2019, 2:46 PM

# Housing

Almost €700 million paid to private landlords in rent subsidies last year

€276,600,000 was paid in HAP to landlords via HAP last year.

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Feb 24th 2019, 8:15 AM

# Housing

Number of homes built in 2018 rose by 25% compared to year previous

The total number of new dwellings completed in 2018 was 18,072, according to the CSO.

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Feb 7th 2019, 9:05 PM

# Deprivation

Nearly 16% of Irish households at risk of poverty last year while disposable income increased

New CSO data shows that the average annual household disposable income was €48,476 in 2017.

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Dec 17th 2018, 8:25 PM

# bottles poppin'

Champagne out, cans of stout in - how the recession changed our drinking habits

In 2008, imports of sparkling wine came to €28.9 million.

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Dec 7th 2018, 6:10 AM

# CSO

CSO to carry out new national survey on sexual violence ... says it may take five years

It’s been 16 years since the Savi – Sexual Abuse and Violence in Ireland – report, was published.

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Nov 20th 2018, 6:27 PM

# CSO

Number of births continues to decrease as average age of mothers rises

Teenage births have more than halved in a decade and the number of twins being born has increased significantly.

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Nov 1st 2018, 9:57 AM

# CSO

Residential property prices have risen by 8.6% so far this year

Since early 2013, prices nationally have increased by 81.1%.

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Oct 9th 2018, 2:06 PM

# criminal offences

'Particularly concerning': Minister responds to 10% rise in the number of reported sex crimes in the last year

Cases of sex crimes, robbery, extortion and hijacking all saw rises in the last year.

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Updated Oct 1st 2018, 9:30 PM

# Housing Crisis

CSO statisticians moving to housing department after confusion over homeless and housing figures

The CSO statisticians will be assisting the department with its housing data, but not homeless figures.

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Sep 30th 2018, 10:00 PM

# Numbers Game

Gardaí release number of drink driving arrests - 15,000 more than previously published

Currently all crime data released by the gardaí is considered to be ‘under reservation’, ie of insufficient quality, by the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

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Sep 24th 2018, 12:05 AM

# Property Prices

House prices in Dublin up by 6.5% in the last year

As a whole, residential property prices at a national level have increased by 10% in the 12 months to July.

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Sep 11th 2018, 1:31 PM

# Emigration

More people are returning to Ireland than leaving for the first time since 2009

Net outward migration of Irish nationals peaked at 29,600 in 2012.

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Aug 28th 2018, 2:23 PM

# CSO

Number of new homes built this year up 30%

A total of 4,419 new dwellings were built in the second quarter of this year.

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Aug 22nd 2018, 11:40 AM

# CSO

Here are the most expensive places to buy a home in Ireland by Eircode

Parts of south Dublin were the most expensive, while parts of Monaghan, Mayo and Roscommon were the least expensive.

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Jul 21st 2018, 8:30 AM

# Crime

New figures show increases in crime across every category (except homicides)

Sexual offences were up by just under 15% in the year to the end of March.

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Jun 27th 2018, 10:15 PM

# Hospitals

Ireland spends €20 billion per year on healthcare, here's where the money goes

There was a 10% increase in health expenditure between 2011 and 2016.

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Jun 23rd 2018, 7:00 AM

# housing department

Government criticised as new data shows 30,000 fewer homes built since 2011 than previously thought

The CSO yesterday published its figures for the completion of new builds over the past number of years.

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Jun 15th 2018, 10:06 AM

# Housing Crisis

Over 3,500 new homes built in first three months of 2018

The CSO said it is using new methods to collate the data.

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Jun 14th 2018, 11:21 AM

# all the money

Irish house prices increased 13% in twelve months, the fastest rate in Europe

Dublin residential property prices have increased 90% from their February 2012 low.

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Jun 13th 2018, 3:00 PM

# rise in humanism

Number of Roman Catholic marriages reducing but it's still the most popular type of ceremony

The average age of grooms in Ireland is 36, while the average age of brides is 34.

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Mar 29th 2018, 5:31 PM

# crime stats

Number of recorded rapes leaped nearly 30% last year amid spike in sexual offences

Rape Crisis Network Ireland said the figures are only the “tip of the iceberg”.

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Mar 28th 2018, 7:06 PM

# crime stats

Homicides increase by nearly 20% after review finds gardaí inaccurately recorded all types of crime

234 homicides between 2003 and 2016 weren’t recorded properly by the gardaí.

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Mar 28th 2018, 12:00 PM

# missing figures

The CSO will publish crime statistics for the first time in almost a year later today

The stats will be published in a new “Under Reservation” category to indicate that the source of the data is not reliable.

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Mar 28th 2018, 7:40 AM

# CSO

Property prices rise by 12.5% nationally

The west region showed the greatest price growth, with house prices increasing by 17.2% in the year to January.

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Mar 14th 2018, 10:58 PM

# Baby Names

TV, sport and music had some amount of impact on Irish baby names through the years

Did you know that there were 39 Rihanna’s were registered in Ireland in 2009?

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Mar 7th 2018, 5:48 PM

# CSO

Here's what the most popular baby names were in Ireland last year

The usual suspects feature in top five.

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Feb 28th 2018, 11:08 AM

# snapshot of ireland

Heart disease and cancer are the most common causes of death in Ireland

Here are the latest statistics on births, deaths and marriages.

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Feb 23rd 2018, 2:16 PM

# missing figures

Policing Authority to question garda commissioner about missing homicide figures

The review was due to be published last June.

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Jan 29th 2018, 1:51 PM

# red hot

Even the winter can't cool down the rapid growth in property prices

Prices were up by 11.6% over the year to November.

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Jan 11th 2018, 3:15 PM

# CSO

Has Ireland become a better place to live in recent years? Unpicking the 'Wellbeing of the Nation'

The CSO says that the release of its survey yesterday is just the beginning in attempts to chart the wellbeing of the Irish nation.

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Jan 11th 2018, 6:00 AM

# Census

Here's what the wellbeing of Ireland looks like right now

The average annual earnings in 2016 were €36,919 per person.

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Jan 10th 2018, 3:38 PM