Colin Gleeson
News Reporter at Irish Times
Reporter with @IrishTimes. Manchester United fan. Email: [email protected]
Articles
-
1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Colin Gleeson
Global markets were mixed in choppy trading on Friday, as inflation concerns and uncertainty around US involvement in the Iran-Israel war offset relief over president Donald Trump holding back from any immediate action. PTSB was the standout performer on the day in Dublin as it climbed 4 per cent while the Euronext Dublin index was unchanged. Its peers AIB and Bank of Ireland were flat.
-
1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Colin Gleeson
Irish ports handled 12.9 million tonnes of goods in the first quarter. That is 7 per cent ahead of the same period last year, data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) shows. However, the latest numbers include traffic through Greenore, Co Louth, as a main statistical port for the first time. That, the CSO pointed out, skews comparisons with previous data. Greenore joins Bantry Bay, Cork, Drogheda, Dublin, Rosslare, Shannon Foynes, and Waterford as one of the State’s main ports.
Residential construction slides by over 10% in first quarter of 2025 compared to previous year - CSO
1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Colin Gleeson
Residential construction slumped by 10.6 per cent in the first three months of 2025 compared to the same period last year, Central Statistics Office (CSO) figures on Friday show. Production in the sector was also down 4.3 per cent compared with the previous quarter. It comes as a new report from estate agent JLL says that Dublin faces a second consecutive year of declining apartment completions, with the numbers built this year expected to be 40 per cent down on the 2023 peak.
-
1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Colin Gleeson
The median first-time buyer property value rose by more than €100,000 between 2019 and 2024 to almost €372,000, data shows. The latest Mortgage Market Profile Report from lobby group Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI) shows a big increase in first-time buyer property and mortgage values and a rise in mortgage repayments.
-
1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Colin Gleeson
The number of passengers who passed through Irish airports held steady in the first quarter at 8.2 million people, new data from the Central Statistics Office shows. That represented a dip of just 20,000 on the same period in 2024. Some 4.1 million passengers departed from Ireland, which was 39,000 fewer passengers than the same period last year. The number of flights to and from the five Irish airports was down 2 per cent from 59,309 to 57,970.
Try JournoFinder For Free
Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.
Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →Coverage map
X (formerly Twitter)
- Followers
- 1K
- Tweets
- 1K
- DMs Open
- Yes
Average cost of second-hand homes in Dublin likely to reach €630,000 this year, says DNG https://t.co/lbzUAMgupD
‘Better the devil you know’: Inner-city Dubliners explain rationale for Gerry Hutch vote https://t.co/Tg2FCsURcK
‘The buck stops with me’: Mary Lou McDonald insists she is in full control of Sinn Féin https://t.co/7UA8941rFk