{"id":289162,"date":"2026-02-09T18:36:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289162\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:36:52","slug":"youre-fighting-the-tide-traditional-dry-cleaners-on-their-battle-to-stay-open-and-how-others-are-adapting-to-new-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/289162\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You\u2019re fighting the tide\u2019 \u2013 traditional dry cleaners on their battle to stay open and how others are adapting to new challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">From rising costs to chemicals and remote working, a once-steady line of work is in danger\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Derek Brennan of  First Class Eco Cleaners on Edges Corner, Fairview, Dublin.&#13;Pic:Mark Condren&#13;14.1.2026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ea2dd51c-8c29-46a6-97bf-df6cddc9ad6f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Derek Brennan of  First Class Eco Cleaners on Edges Corner, Fairview, Dublin.&#13;Pic:Mark Condren&#13;14.1.2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Marlowe Cleaners in Clontarf, Dublin, announced it would shut on Christmas Eve 2024 after 46 years in business, the reaction from customers was one of shock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For owner David Doran, the decision had been a long time coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From rising costs to chemicals and remote working, a once-steady line of work is in danger Derek Brennan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,158,615,61,60,3478,29265],"class_list":["post-289162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-coronavirus","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sarah-burke","tag-sustainable-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}