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Best Shopping Centre in Ireland?

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  • #32
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Northside Shopping Centre... why? Because it's the great, great shopping centre!


  • #33
    Spyral
    Closed Accounts Posts: 885 ✭✭✭Spyral


    Blanchardstown. Because it has Borders, my favourite store EVER. Easons should be ashamed.

    +1


  • #34
    zAbbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,985 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    Northside Shopping Centre... why? Because it's the great, great shopping centre!

    And it's aged well, haha


  • #35
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Dundrum is fine as long as there isn't a game on at croke Park. then it just gets full of Culchies up for a day in the big smoke while their husbands watch the match.


  • #36
    dade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭dade


    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    Northside Shopping Centre... why? Because it's the great, great shopping centre!

    couldn't agree more full of the wonder that is Tommys wonderland of value and all those nice pleasant kids from the local school


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  • #37
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    I work for that school.... :(


  • #38
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    dade wrote: »
    couldn't agree more full of the wonder that is Tommys wonderland of value and all those nice peasant kids from the local school

    Fixed - yw.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #39
    SoupyNorman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    Rotti Express wrote: »
    I like the new Athlone Town Centre down here in the sticks.



    Its decent enough, considering the choices were either Golden Island or Texas
    anything would of been an improvement.


  • #40
    fricatus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,919 ✭✭✭fricatus


    I'm surprised Victoria Square in Belfast hasn't been mentioned yet, but I suppose it depends on your whether your interpretation of "Ireland" is on a state basis or an island basis. (I know, I'll stop digging in just a sec...)

    Isn't it getting a branch of Abercrombie and Fitch? Or did I mishear? If it does, it will be the biggest mass exodus in peacetime Europe, as all the Barbie dolls leave Dundrum and head straight up the M1 in their Minis and VW Beetles, in search of the Holy Grail :D


  • #41
    dade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,178 ✭✭✭dade


    monkeyfudge wrote: »
    I work for that school.... :(

    herding the cattle back in after lunch at McDs?


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  • #42
    Xavi6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,147 ✭✭✭✭Xavi6


    Liffey Valley is a hole with far too much wasted space. The design and layout is poor at best.

    Blanch ftw. Has everything.


  • #43
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 9,005 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Dundrum.It has class unlike Blanch!:pac:


  • #44
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,527 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    bravestarr082 wrote: »
    Its decent enough, considering the choices were either Golden Island or Texas
    anything would of been an improvement.

    GI was a great little shopping centre back in the day


  • #45
    adsgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 260 ✭✭adsgirl


    fricatus wrote: »
    I'm surprised Victoria Square in Belfast hasn't been mentioned yet, but I suppose it depends on your whether your interpretation of "Ireland" is on a state basis or an island basis. (I know, I'll stop digging in just a sec...)

    Isn't it getting a branch of Abercrombie and Fitch? Or did I mishear? If it does, it will be the biggest mass exodus in peacetime Europe, as all the Barbie dolls leave Dundrum and head straight up the M1 in their Minis and VW Beetles, in search of the Holy Grail :D


    Indeed it is, a marvellous monument to airheads with more sense than money, impossible though to ignore the smell of slap that prevails its' hallowed malls.
    :o


  • #46
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    They're all horrible evil buildings. Buildings that turn once intelligent girls into drooling gibbering incoherent monsters. They also make one hour seem like 7 and worst of all they always make Pigheads feet wet as he slips into the fountain whilst sneakily trying to grab that shiny €2 at the bottom of said fountain.


  • #47
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    A shopping mall killed my last serious relationship. FACT!


  • #48
    quinevere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 198 ✭✭quinevere


    blanch in dublin is superior borders is the best bookshop ever
    however kildare outlet is a brilliant day shopping very beautiful surrounding and bargains what else could a girl ask for


  • #49
    SoupyNorman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    Blanch for me because you can escape all the Harpies inside by going to all the Peripheral Shops which include the best ones by miles.


  • #50
    Daithi McGee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 671 ✭✭✭Daithi McGee


    For me.... Liffey Valley. You start at one end and finish at tother, ye old english style. All very straight forward. KFC Mini fillets may be purchased to provide sustenance, if needed. None of this wandering around in circles, up some stairs*, down some stairs* malarkey! *For what it is worth....I fear elevators and escalators for I think they will eat me. Childhood incident, don't really want to go there.


  • #51
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,141 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    They're all pretty much the same.

    Some of the newer ones are better designed (wider walkways, centralised foodcourt etc.), but The Square in Tallaght has rarely failed to meet my needs.

    That said I prefer shopping in the city centre to any one shopping centre.


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  • #52
    IronMan
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    quinevere wrote: »
    blanch in dublin is superior borders is the best bookshop ever
    however kildare outlet is a brilliant day shopping very beautiful surrounding and bargains what else could a girl ask for

    How about an education, a long and healthy life, a loving family, a sense of community?


  • #53
    SoupyNorman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


    IronMan wrote: »
    How about an education, a long and healthy life, a loving family, a sense of community?

    You're obviously very disconnected with a womans priorities.


  • #54
    Oracle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,630 ✭✭✭Oracle


    Not sure about single shopping centre but Limerick is the best place for shopping, because there's so many shopping centres within a few minutes of each other. The Crescent, Parkway and Childers Road Shopping Centres are all only a few miles apart so the choice is unbeatable.


  • #55
    missmatty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,124 ✭✭✭missmatty


    +1 for Belfast's Victoria Square, was there lately. Very nice.


  • #56
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Oracle wrote: »
    Not sure about single shopping centre but Limerick is the best place for shopping, because there's so many shopping centres within a few minutes of each other. The Crescent, Parkway and Childers Road Shopping Centres are all only a few miles apart so the choice is unbeatable.

    and don't forget the opportunity to claim a new car stereo and wheels off your insurance as well.:D


  • #57
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    quinevere wrote: »
    blanch in dublin is superior borders is the best bookshop ever

    lies!Charlie brynes is teh best.


  • #58
    rco2000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 402 ✭✭rco2000


    best large shopping centre - Dundrum
    best medium shopping centre - golden island, athlone
    best small shopping centre - tuam shopping centre


  • #59
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 11,392 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Oracle wrote: »
    Not sure about single shopping centre but Limerick is the best place for shopping, because there's so many shopping centres within a few minutes of each other. The Crescent, Parkway and Childers Road Shopping Centres are all only a few miles apart so the choice is unbeatable.

    The crescent is good, and childers road I suppose for the ladies shops, but the parkway? I can't think of anything that would make it a must stop. The city itself has quite a bit of stuff too actually. No shopping centres yet really in it (williams court and arthurs quay aren't exactly shopping meccas)


  • #60
    truecrippler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,243 ✭✭✭truecrippler


    fricatus wrote: »
    I'm surprised Victoria Square in Belfast hasn't been mentioned yet, but I suppose it depends on your whether your interpretation of "Ireland" is on a state basis or an island basis. (I know, I'll stop digging in just a sec...)

    Isn't it getting a branch of Abercrombie and Fitch? Or did I mishear? If it does, it will be the biggest mass exodus in peacetime Europe, as all the Barbie dolls leave Dundrum and head straight up the M1 in their Minis and VW Beetles, in search of the Holy Grail :D

    I don't see what people see in Abercrombie and Fitch. Don't they have the name on all their t-shirts? Looks appalling.

    Anywho, I hate Dundrum, I'm always there because its fairly local :P.

    I went to Cork about a Month ago and went to a shopping centre near or around McCurtain St. They did these Ice-Creams in a cup and you could have any topping which they'd blend in with the Ice-Cream. :O Thought I was in Heaven so my vote goes to this un-named shopping centre.


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  • #61
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 21,353 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    truecrippler wrote: »
    I don't see what people see in Abercrombie and Fitch. Don't they have the name on all their t-shirts? Looks appalling.

    They were the "Look at me, I've been to America" brand at one point.


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