DUBLIN, March 16 (Reuters) - Annual Irish inflation
jumped back up to 8.5% in February from 7.8% a month earlier, in
line with a flash estimate published earlier this month, Central
Statistics Office (CSO) data showed on Thursday.
Ireland's consumer price index (CPI) rose by 1.6%
month-on-month, the biggest monthly increase since October,
after prices rose for restaurants, hotels, airfares, clothing
and footwear, the CSO said.
Ireland's central bank forecast last week that inflation
would grow at a slower than previously forecast 5% this year
before falling towards 2% by 2025.
(Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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