(Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
Messaging: padraic.halpin.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)) DUBLIN, March 1 (Reuters) - Annual Irish inflation
ticked back up to 8% in February from 7.5% a month earlier,
according to a flash estimate of the EU's Harmonised Index of
Consumer Prices (HICP), Ireland's Central Statistics Office
(CSO) said on Wednesday.
Consumer prices were 1.4% higher month-on-month, the CSO
added, after food prices rose by an estimated 1.2% and energy
prices fell by 0.2% on a monthly basis.
Excluding energy, the HICP is estimated to have grown by
5.8% since February 2022, the CSO said.
Finance Minister Michael McGrath said last week that he
expected Irish inflation to average between 4% and 5% across
2023, lower than the 7.1% his department most recently forecast
last September.
Eurostat will publish flash estimates of inflation for the
euro zone as a whole on Thursday.
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