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Colin Gleeson @ColinGleesonIT

Reporter with @IrishTimes. Manchester United fan. Email: colin.gleeson@irishtimes.com

Joined March 2014
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Private rental sector has lost more than 43,000 properties over past five years irishtimes.com/business/2025…

Private rental sector has lost more than 43,000 properties over past five years

Ireland’s ‘stringent rent controls’ have led investors to seek more favourable markets in recent years, according to Sherry Fitzgerald

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Dublin is the fifth most expensive capital city in Europe, but ranks far better for affordability when average wages are taken into account, according to the findings of a new report. irishtimes.com/business/2025…

Dublin is fifth most expensive capital in Europe for living costs

City is fifth costliest in terms of living expenses, but is 13th most affordable when average wages are accounted for, report finds

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Average cost of second-hand homes in Dublin likely to reach €630,000 this year, says DNG irishtimes.com/business/2025…

Average cost of second-hand homes in Dublin likely to reach €630,000 this year, says DNG

Price inflation of 5%-8% expected by leading estate agent, which also says house sales last year were down 8%

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‘Better the devil you know’: Inner-city Dubliners explain rationale for Gerry Hutch vote irishtimes.com/politics/2024…

‘Better the devil you know’: Inner-city Dubliners explain rationale for Gerry Hutch vote

Locals in and around Summerhill expressed disappointment after it became clear Mr Hutch would not win a seat

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‘The buck stops with me’: Mary Lou McDonald insists she is in full control of Sinn Féin irishtimes.com/politics/2024…

‘The buck stops with me’: Mary Lou McDonald insists she is in full control of Sinn Féin

Sinn Féin leader makes pledge to voters, expresses regret over party scandals, and says she will be a ‘mindful’ taoiseach

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Hewett Newsagents in Monkstown closes its doors for last time after 75 years irishtimes.com/business/2024…

Hewett Newsagents in Monkstown closes its doors for last time after 75 years

Shop, which dealt primarily in newspapers and magazines, mobbed by well-wishers on Sunday following decision to ‘pull the plug’

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Great report. Fucking appalling story. Soldier walks free after beating woman unconscious and boasting about it on social media jrnl.ie/6414853

Soldier walks free after beating woman unconscious and boasting about it on social media

The incident occurred in May 2022 in Limerick City.

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Catholic church cancels ‘incompatible’ concert by Dublin gay men’s choir irishtimes.com/ireland/socia…

Catholic church cancels ‘incompatible’ concert by Dublin gay men’s choir

Clerical official wrote to choir to say event was ‘not compatible with our mission as a Roman Catholic parish church’

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Irish boxing president to step down as he faces sexual assault charge irishtimes.com/crime-law/202…

Irish boxing president offers to step down as he faces sexual assault charge

Irish Athletic Boxing Association president Gerry O’Mahony is alleged to have assaulted a woman

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‘Old Mr Brennan’, founder of family-run Irish bread maker, has died irishtimes.com/business/2024…

‘Old Mr Brennan’, founder of family-run Irish bread maker, dies

Joseph Brennan founded his company in a single room more than 50 years and built it into one of Ireland’s biggest bakeries

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Bloom 2024: Country’s biggest gardening event expects to welcome 100,000 visitors irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/…

Bloom 2024: Country’s biggest gardening event expects to welcome 100,000 visitors

From encouraging biodiversity in new housing estates to raising awareness around fostering, festival has wide array of clever designs

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Referendum profiles: The No campaign’s key players and moments A well-known, albeit sometimes polarising political figure, Senator Michael McDowell was possibly the No side’s most effective performer. irishtimes.com/politics/2024…

Referendum profiles: The No campaign’s key players and moments

Spoils of victory have been picked up by those individuals and groups who urged the public to mark X in their No columns

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Multinationals raising ‘significant concerns’ around housing in Ireland, ESRI says irishtimes.com/business/econ…

Multinationals raising ‘significant concerns’ around housing in Ireland, ESRI says

Regulatory changes following financial crash mean banks are not lending enough to house-buyers, officials tell Oireachtas committee

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Ireland told to shore up corporate tax laws to prevent wealthy from committing tax fraud and evasion irishtimes.com/business/2024…

Ireland told to shore up corporate tax laws to prevent wealthy from committing tax fraud and evasion

UN’s top human rights watchdog says measures ‘must be strengthened’ so loopholes cannot be exploited to hide profits

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‘Mixed emotions’ in Drogheda as rally is staged against hotel asylum plan irishtimes.com/ireland/socia…

‘Mixed emotions’ in Drogheda as rally is staged against hotel asylum plan

‘When I said I was going to the protest, my daughter literally blanked us for the whole day,’ says local woman who joined about 200 protesters

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Good morning. You can follow our live coverage of today's historic events in Northern Ireland with me below. Powersharing to return in Northern Ireland with Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill as First Minister irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/…

Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill elected first ever nationalist First Minister of Northern Ireland

Restoration of the powersharing Executive comes two years to the day since the DUP collapsed the institutions

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Working on a window wonderland: Creating ‘beyond ordinary’ shopfront displays for Christmas irishtimes.com/ireland/2023/…

Working on a window wonderland: Creating ‘beyond ordinary’ shopfront displays for Christmas

Shop windows play a key role in creating the feel-good atmosphere on shopping streets that helps to draw customers inside

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The most visceral descriptions of loss I've ever read. This is why victim impact statements are so important. Heart goes out to the Murphy family and Ryan Casey ❤ ‘My heart was ripped from my body’: Ashling Murphy’s mother tells court of heartbreak irishtimes.com/crime-law/cou…

‘My heart was ripped from my body’: Ashling Murphy’s mother tells court of heartbreak

Amy Murphy said her sister’s pink fiddle case ‘now lies at home covered in dust’ after her murder

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'It is the sanction – perhaps that fear element – that keeps people straight. Very often it is the fear of the courts or the fear of the guards.' - former senior Garda Decriminalising drugs won’t work due to ‘criminal lunatics’, Citizens’ Assembly hears irishtimes.com/crime-law/202…

Decriminalising drugs won’t work due to ‘criminal lunatics’, Citizens’ Assembly hears

Former head of the Garda drugs squad Michael O’Sullivan says ‘fear’ of gardaí and the courts are needed to keep people ‘straight’

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Mason Greenwood: TV presenter Rachel Riley says she'll stop supporting Man Utd if forward stays - bbc.co.uk/sport/football/665…

Mason Greenwood: TV presenter Rachel Riley says she'll stop supporting Man Utd if forward stays

Television presenter Rachel Riley says she will stop supporting Manchester United if forward Mason Greenwood stays at the club.

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