Some 54,800 passengers arrived in the Republic by air or sea last month, down 49.2 per cent versus the previous month and 95.5 per cent lower than February 2020, new figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show. At the same time 53,000 passengers departed the State on overseas routes, some 55.2 per cent fewer than in January. In the same month a year earlier, 1.2 million passengers arrived in the Republic, with a similar number departing. Of those arriving into the State last month, 50,500, equivalent to 92.1 per cent of all passengers, came by air. For the first two months of the year, 162,800 overseas passengers arrived in the State, with 171,900 departing.

Source: The Irish Times March 29, 2021 10:42 UTC