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Irish consumers pay on average 42 per cent more for basic goods and services than their European Union counterparts. Eurostat’s latest price comparison survey says Ireland is the second most expensive state in the EU - behind only Denmark. Eoin Burke Kennedy, the economics correspiondent at The Irish Times, has more on these figures