Irish consumer sentiment improves for second month after COVID collapse

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish consumer sentiment improved in June for the second month in a row, but remains well below levels recorded before the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, a survey showed on Wednesday.The KBC Bank consumer sentiment index climbed to 61.6 in June from 52.3 in May, but remains some distance from February's pre-pandemic reading of 85.2. In April the index dropped to 42.6 in the sharpest month-on-month decline in the survey's 24-year history.The recovery in consumer sentiment..