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For the first time in almost two decades the number of Irish taking trips abroad is greater than the number of visitors who are choosing to visit the Emerald Isle.

This year the number of overseas visits by Irish residents has exceeded the number of overseas visits to Ireland. According to the Central Statistics Office in the first quarter of 2007 there were 1,575,000 Irish visits overseas compared with 1,478,000 overseas visits to Ireland an increase of 17 per cent.

Overseas trips to continental European routes also grew by 28 per cent and there was a decrease of two per cent in the number of overseas trips on sea cross-channel routes compared with 2006.