Best Shopping Centre in Ireland?

MarkR wrote: »

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)

It's the Parkway plus Parkway Retail Park beside it (TKMaxx, Currys, Homebase and PCWorld etc...) that make it worthwhile. I'd agree the city itself is great, no good shopping centres, but great atmosphere for strolling around doing some good old fashioned window shopping.

Dudess wrote: »

Merchants Quay (very different to its Dublin namesake). Your delicious ice cream blinded you to the fact that it's an awful place. Cork's shopping centres are all fairly mediocre - some of them plain crap. Mahonpoint is the biggest, but it's not that great, and as someone already mentioned, the traffic is dreadful. Once you're in, you'll always get a space though, strangely enough.

I hate shopping in Cork. I've been to Mahon Point 3 times and town twice in the last couple of weeks and as of now I'll be starting work with no pants on.

square_igloo wrote: »

Pics or GTFO :pac:

Yeah, Cork isn't great for shopping. There are never any nice pants/shoes anywhere. I own two pairs of pants and two pairs of shoes But I do have about a gazillion tshirts so maybe it's just me.

T-shirts are no problem. It's pants that I can't find. Stupid shops never have my size.

I hated Dundrum when I went there but I was broke and wrecked and my feet hurt so that might have been it.

Liffey Valley was built on brown envelopes, of course it was badly planned. Can get quite knackering walking up and down. Food court and cinema are really good, knacker problem isn't overwhelming and has all my favourite shops. No Penneys, but there IS a huge Miss Selfridge, H&M and Boots. The Topshop is crap though.
Dundrum is full of knobs, I find them more annoying than knackers. Huge amount of buggies at Christmas time means you can't move in the place. Great selection of shops, food's a bit expensive though. And parking isn't free.
Blanch is great, but it does have a knacker problem. I don't like the layout either.
The Square just keeps deteriorating.
Stephens Green is by far the prettiest, I work there. Most of the shops are failing except for Dunnes, Boots and TK Maxx. Lots have closed in the past year. Layout is god-awful. Hopefully the South Anne Street development (woo a H&M!) will breathe life into it.

A combination of the first three would be ideal, overall I think Liffey Valley is the best though.

Lots of people have said The Square is ****e or keeps getting worse.

What exactly is wrong with it?

Best shopping centre has to be the crescent shopping centre in Limerick (and ive been to almost every one in ireland), the new parkway valley shopping centre in limerick shaping up to be class.

Best city centre for shopping has to be patrick st in cork (makes up for having terrible shopping centres in cork)

Depends what you're looking for. Liffey Valley is hopeless if you're looking for anything other than clothes. Don't even get me started on Kildare Village. :mad: Dundrum is good but it's hard to see past all the annoying orange kids. Manor Mills in Maynooth is an absolute joke.

Blanch is best I reckon. The layout is confusing if you're unfamiliar with it but there's plenty of parking and it has just about everything you'd want (and some things you don't like 20 Starbucks). The retail parks are great because you can avoid the crowds. Much better variety than Liffey Valley and the retail parks are more accessible on foot than in LV.

Gerardo Victorious Hamper wrote: »

Nutgrove... it just rules.

QFT :cool:












Eh, no really: Dundrum. The shops are great and it's so pretty