Ikea launches cross-sea service for Irish customers

Ikea has launched a home delivery service by ferry for its Irish customers.

For a fee - from £80 to Northern Ireland and £100 to the Republic - customers will have larger goods transported from the firm's store in Glasgow to their doorsteps.

With no Ikea of their own, Irish customers have been making the trip to Ikea's Braehead store since it opened last year.

Dubbed the "Ikea trail", 14,000 trippers from across the Irish Sea are expected to visit the UK's largest Ikea store this year.

Managers have reported as many as 13 coaches from Ireland arriving in one day. But until now customers have been unable to transport larger items home.

The company says customers can expect their goods in 48 hours.