Prices in Ireland 🇮🇪
What 7 everyday items cost in Ireland, shown in US dollars, in EUR, and as roughly how long someone earning the average local wage works to buy one.
Ireland is the most expensive eurozone country in most of this table. Wages are high, the retail market is small and geographically isolated, and hospitality prices in particular have run ahead of the euro-area average since 2021.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $7.05 | 6.08 EUR | 21 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $1.94 | 1.85 EUR | 6 min |
| Cappuccino | $4.56 | 3.96 EUR | 14 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.61 | 1.4 EUR | 5 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $4.50 | 3.91 EUR | 14 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $3.20 | 2.78 EUR | 10 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $2.07 | 1.8 EUR | 6 min |
Local-currency figures are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates, except the Big Mac, which is published in local currency by The Economist and converted the other way. Work time divides the dollar price by an estimated average hourly wage — the roughest number on this page. See methodology.
How Ireland compares
Relative to the rest of the game, Ireland is most expensive for coca-cola, where it ranks 6th out of 33 countries at $1.94 — against a global median of $1.37.
It is relatively cheapest for milk at $1.61, which is 16th of 32 — only 16 countries in the game are cheaper.
Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is big mac, at roughly 21 minutes of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently — that gap is usually the more interesting number.
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