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Prices in Ireland 🇮🇪

In Ireland, mobile data costs $1.50, milk costs $1.61 and coca-cola costs $1.94. That is 16 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in EUR, and as roughly how long someone on 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. Its tax structure is unusually polarised: 23% standard, among the highest in the EU, alongside zero-rating for most basic food. So an Irish grocery basket carries almost no VAT while an Irish restaurant bill carries a great deal, and the two Irish figures in this table that diverge most from their eurozone neighbours are the prepared ones. Ireland and Spain make the sharpest pair here: same currency, opposite tax philosophies.

What things cost

ItemUSDLocalWork time
Big Mac$7.056.08 EUR21 min
Coca-Cola (330ml can)$1.941.85 EUR6 min
Cappuccino$4.563.96 EUR14 min
Milk (1 litre)$1.611.4 EUR5 min
Eggs (dozen)$4.503.91 EUR14 min
Apples (1 kg)$3.202.78 EUR10 min
Gasoline (1 litre)$2.071.8 EUR6 min
Diesel (1 litre)$2.201.9 EUR7 min
Electricity (100 kWh)$45.5039.3 EUR2.3 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)$12.3010.6 EUR37 min
Cigarettes (20-pack)$18.4617.05 EUR55 min
Beer (330ml)$2.392.21 EUR7 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)$27.8325.7 EUR83 min
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)$3.363.1 EUR10 min
Mobile data (1 GB)$1.50—5 min
A day's healthy diet$3.112.75 EUR9 min

Most local-currency figures are printed as the source published them. The cappuccino, milk, egg, apple and petrol rows are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates; the healthy-diet row is converted the other way. A dash means the source publishes dollars and nothing else. 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 electricity (100 kWh), where it ranks 1st out of 48 countries at $45.50, against a global median of $20.65.

It is relatively cheapest for mobile data at $1.50, which is 19th of 49, only 30 countries in the game are cheaper.

Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is electricity (100 kWh), at roughly 2.3 hours of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently, and that gap is usually the more interesting number.

What the state takes

Standard rate in Ireland: 23% VAT. Ordinary groceries: most basic food zero-rated. Where these come from.

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Ireland prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Ireland?
Pricele publishes 16 everyday prices for Ireland, each from a named source. Mobile data $1.50, Milk $1.61, Coca-Cola $1.94. All figures are converted to US dollars so countries can be compared directly; the local-currency figure is shown alongside wherever the source published one.
What currency is used in Ireland?
Ireland uses the EUR. Pricele lists every price in US dollars for comparability, and shows the published local-currency figure next to it where the source gives one rather than back-converting from the dollar price.
What is the cheapest thing on Pricele's Ireland list?
Of the 16 items priced for Ireland, the cheapest is Mobile data at $1.50 and the most expensive is Electricity (100 kWh) at $45.50. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.
Where do Pricele's Ireland prices come from?
Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from The Economist Big Mac Index (euro-area price), Jan 2026, Burger Parity, 2026, Numbeo (crowd-sourced), retrieved 2026-08, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, 17-Aug-2026, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, December 2025, WHO Global Health Observatory, tobacco tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), WHO Global Health Observatory, alcohol tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), WHO Global Health Observatory, tobacco tax survey 2024 (cheapest disposable device), Cable.co.uk worldwide mobile data pricing, 2023 and World Bank Food Prices for Nutrition, 2025 (converted at the World Bank official exchange rate). A pair only exists where there is a real sourced number: the table is deliberately sparse rather than padded with estimates, so a missing item usually means the item is not sold that way in Ireland.