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Irish Examiner
13 hours ago
- Business
- Irish Examiner
Irish airports handle 8.2m passengers in Q1 2025 while air freight edges up
Ireland's five main airports saw 8.2m passengers through their gates in the first quarter of 2025, down 20,000 on the same period in 2024. The amount of air freight handled by the main airports rose by 1% to 43,318 tonnes in the first three months of 2025 when compared with the same period in 2024. The number of flights to and from Irish airports in Q1 2025 was down 2% from 59,309 to 57,970 compared to 2024. Dublin handled 83% of all flights (48,351), followed by Cork with 8% of all flights (4,737). In Q1 2025, 4.1 million passengers departed from Ireland, which was 39,000 fewer passengers than the same period in 2024. London-Heathrow, Amsterdam-Schiphol, and Manchester were the most popular routes for passengers travelling through Dublin. The top route for both Cork and Shannon airports was Heathrow. For Knock, it was Luton, while for Kerry, it was Dublin. "In Q1 2025, almost nine out of every 10 passengers (88%) on international flights in the five main airports were travelling to or from Europe," said CSO statistician Damien Lenihan. "The two most popular countries of origin/destination were the United Kingdom and Spain. Outside of Europe, the United States of America was the most popular country of origin/destination in Q1 2025."
Irish Times
12-05-2025
- Automotive
- Irish Times
New cars licensed in Ireland rise 3% in first four months of 2025
The number of new private cars licensed in Ireland has increased by 3 per cent over the first four months of 2025 compared with last year after a fall in vehicles sales in 2024, Central Statistics Office (CSO) figures have revealed. Published on Monday, the new data shows the number of new private cars licensed in the State for the first time jumped 5 per cent in April to 13,033. It meant that over the first four months of 2025, almost 64,300 new private cars were licensed, up more than 3 per cent from 2024. Of the more than 13,000 new cars licensed for the first time in April, 1,783 were electric vehicles, up 23 per cent on the same month in 2024, the CSO said. READ MORE 'We also saw growth in the licensing of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, which were up 73 per cent from 1,017 in April of 2024 to 1,761 vehicles in April 2025,' said Damien Lenihan, a statistician in the CSO's transport section. Almost 17,200 of the 116,683 new private cars registered for the first time in 2024 were electric, a 15 per cent share of the market. That was compared with 19 per cent in 2023, when volumes stood at 22,493. Concerns over charging infrastructure and changes to the grant for electric vehicles have chilled consumer demand. Meanwhile, the number of new petrol cars licensed continued to decline, falling 12 per cent to 14,446 in the first four months of 2025 compared with 19,934 last year. Licensed diesel cars also fell 25 per cent over the same period to 10,917. The number of second-hand private cars licensed in April rose 3 per cent to 5,537, the CSO said. The number of imported diesel cars licensed, meanwhile, rose 6 per cent to slightly more than 1,500. Toyota was the most popular brand of new private car licensed in the State last month at 1,732, followed by Volkswagen with 1,694. Volkswagen was the most popular brand of electric vehicle last month, followed by Toyota.
