New car sales in Tipp up on last year

According to figures from the Society of the Irish Motor Industry 3,765 new cars were registered in the Premier County up to the end of July.

This is an increase of 570 on the first 7 months of 2015.

This is slightly below the national increase of 19% with over 131 thousand new cars sold across the country.

Hyundai tops the sales list for the year so far.