Loans to Irish households continued to fall in October as deposits rose on a year-on-year basis for the third month in a row.
The Central Bank said that loans to households fell by €514m compared with a decline of €88m a month earlier, but the rate of annual decline remained stable at 3.7%.
Deposits increased 2.4%, more than September's 1.8% rise. Big outflows from Irish banks at around the time the country signed up to an EU/IMF bailout continue to be gradually reversed.
