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Cross-Border Shopping Shifts: Leisure Over Savings
12/22/2025
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Story summary
- Cross-border shopping between Newry, Northern Ireland, and Dundalk, Republic of Ireland, is stabilizing.
- Paddy Malone of Dundalk Chamber of Commerce says shopping is now about leisure, not savings.
- Alcohol prices are lower in the north.
- Some clothing items are cheaper in Dundalk.
- Pharmacist Aine McNulty says about 40% of Newry pharmacy customers are from the Republic.
