Public transport journeys and car traffic volumes increased in May, but are still below pre-pandemic levels.
New data from the Central Statistics Office shows that public transport journeys climbed to their highest levels since March 2020.
The number of bus journeys in Dublin were 84% of the levels in the week beginning 2 March 2020, compared with 89% for bus journeys outside Dublin and 78% for rail journeys.
Luas journeys also rose during 2022, with an increase of 113% between the beginning of January to end of May.
But, Luas journeys also remained below pre-Covid-19 levels.
Meanwhile, in May car traffic volumes were the highest so far this year.
Data for the end of May 2022 show that car traffic volumes in Dublin increased by 16% compared with same week in 2021.
For the week beginning 23 May, car traffic volumes in Dublin were only 4% lower than the same week in 2019.
For regional traffic, the data reveals the same pattern, with the volume for that same week being 5% lower than the same week in 2019
In May, Dublin airport passenger numbers were 87% of May 2019 data.
"Passenger numbers for Dublin airport have still not returned to pre-COVID-19 levels, with 2.6 million passengers in May 2022, below the 3.0 million in May 2019," said Nele van der Wielen, Statistician in the Transport Division of the CSO.
The data shows that the number of passengers in Dublin airport in May 2022 was more than 17 times higher than in May 2021.
There were 2,582,822 passengers in May 2022 compared with 2,965,517 for the same month in 2019.
