160,000 Passengers Arrived In Ireland Last Month.

Thursday, 29 July 2021 at 12:38

Its an increase of 87% on May's figures.

160,000 passengers arrived in Ireland from overseas in June, an increase of 87 per cent on May.

CSO figures show just under 200,000 passengers left the country on overseas trips, last month , that's up 105 per cent on the previous month.

Continental routes contributed most to passenger traffic in June, while just 11,000 passengers arrived on transatlantic routes and 7,700 departed.

Apart from Britain, the most important routing countries for overseas travel were Spain, Poland and the Netherlands.

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