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Thursday 1 June 2023 Dublin: 14°C

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# scraping by
60% of Irish people borrow to pay their household bills
20% borrowed money from family and friends to pay their bills.
# not going out
Irish people have less extra cash than our European neighbours
New figures from Eurostat show Irish households to have 6% less material wealth than the European average.