NEW STATS RELEASED today from the CSO showed that Irish people took almost 7.6 million trips abroad last year. There’s good news on the home front too though: Irish people took 9.3 million trips around the country in 2016.

If you are planning a break this year, do you intend taking:

Poll Results:

A foreign break but also one in Ireland (5188)

Only a foreign holiday (4973)

I'm not taking any holiday at all (1789)

Only holidaying in Ireland (1707)

Only a foreign holiday
A foreign break but also one in Ireland
Only holidaying in Ireland
I'm not taking any holiday at all

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Poll: Do you intend taking your holidays abroad this year?

Poll Results:

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