Ireland's finance ministry last week revised down its inflation estimate for 2023 to 4.9% and forecast a figure of 2.5% next year. It forecast core inflation of 4.4% for this year and 3.2% for 2024, while warning that this number could be "more problematic". (Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Messaging: padraic.halpin.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net)) DUBLIN, April 28 (Reuters) - Annual Irish inflation
eased again in April to 6.3% from 7% in March, but core
inflation is running at almost 12%, a flash estimate of the
EU-standard Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) showed.
The Irish HICP excluding energy and unprocessed food, known
by economists as core inflation and seen as a better gauge of
the underlying trend, rose 11.9% year-on-year. Ireland's Central
Statistics Office (CSO) did not have an estimate for that data
point last month.
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