bits and bobs is much like a 2 euro shop, just it doesn't have the 2 euro rule. expect things to…read morebe not much or not much below 2 euro though. you'll always find something that is cheap that'll brighten up your day an litlerally is bits and bobs! also i always like the cheap chocolate!

Contacted Rita last June to organise an appointment for my wedding this July a full year between…read morewhen I enquired and my wedding date. She responsed asking my wedding date to which I wrote back immediately with my date. To this day I am still waiting on that appointment. I then tried again today to which she advised me she can't help me she is booked up until August. Now I'm at a loss as to what to do as I thought she would be my seamstress.

I thought they provided a very friendly and professional service. The price was very reasonable and…read moreaffordable for the quality work carried out. I will definitly be back for any more alterations I have. keep up the great service. Thank you.

So the man behind the business died - must be near two years ago now. He was a gentle man and a…read moregrafter. I only knew him to say hello to or to buy from. My only real conversation that I ever had with him was over 50 years ago when I extended my sympathy after a bomb exploded and ruined his shop. I really don't know where these local giants of men and women continued to find the wherewithal to trade and maintain employment in a civil war. It might have been the 1960's or maybe the 1970's but it was here I got my first pair of wranglers; it was here I got my first pair of Levi's. And here I got my bell bottom jeans, white Showaddywaddy shoes and my green Fightin' Irish Notre dam jumper. It was funny to watch the tactics back then - all the price labels contained small symbols to allow staff to know the real cost rather than the retail price so from there you got your much lauded 'discount'. I remember to this day paying £45 to PJ for a pair of Levi's in 1973 which was a huge sum back then. No discount allowed on them, no symbols that's the price 'our hands are tied.' There had been disastrous floods in USA that year that affected the cotton crop so the price of denim shot up. It was called 'price maintenance' which really meant Strauss would refuse to sell to small retailers or independents if they offered discounts. Turned out to be an illegal activity but I'm sure they knew that anyway. So fast forward to now. We have a family wedding and for the third time in 20 years it's Louis Boyd we turn to again for our family wedding sartorial hire from 7 years old to three score years plus VAT. We are measured and fitted by friendly staff with patience and kindness in very impressive surroundings and a heck of a lot of floor space. Long may they thrive.

Great people/workers the owner Stevie and my dad are best friends lovely service and coffee and hot…read morechocolate

Great wee coffee shop,beautiful breakfast baps/sodas brilliant staff and in the good weather a…read morewonderful little outside sitting area where all the craic of the day is discussed about the local Dundalk FC,and all at affordable prices in this day and age

This is my 499th 'First' review…read more Almost all my reviews have focussed on restaurants and cafes - it is unusual for me to review a supermarket chain as I tend to food shop, mostly in M&S, but I've noted that Dunnes food has more and more focused on small Irish producers like unique cheese manufacturers, makers of crap and artificial muck free pure 100% apple syrup, jams, marinades and chilli sauces. A lot of these products are also organic. They also have a great range of specialist Italian and Spanish meats and continental cheeses including some really top notch cheeses. All of these small producer products are close to M&S quality and price (although they've a very long way to go to catch the fabulous diverse range of M&S Food). They do cater for the other end of the market with many Dunnes own brands at great value (like M&S) and for a long time now they've offered a 20% generous food discount scheme. I've no doubt the company is not a generous wage payer especially to the check-out staff but they aren't alone and when politicians introduce minimum wages the minimum becomes a maximum to capitalism. I'd be happier to see living wages legislated for to redress the growing imbalance between the lowest and highest paid to reduce tax payer subsidies to multi national conglomerates but more importantly to maintain a cohesive society with a strong fabric rather than a Trumpian or Putin-esque dystopia.

If it has effective management it's not obvious. I used a filthy restroom in here and despite two…read moreroll holding compartments there wasn't a piece of tissue paper. The floor was stinking. They charge a euro thirty cents an hour to park in the place you'd think they could afford sufficient toilet tissue. No excuses.

Where ever I come and visit my relatives in Dundalk, one of my favorite things to do is to shop at…read morethis lovely mall. Great stores, nice and clean food venue, only con is, the bathroom is far away. Other wise i have no complaints

I have a predisposition against shopping centres that charge me to park my car just to go shop or…read moreeat but won't give me a couple of hours parking credit for, say, stopping long enough for a Starbucks coffee or other food. So I'm predisposed to disliking this shopping centre for this reason. The wonderful Lowry Outlet in Manchester, an altogether nicer place, allows for free generous parking up to four hours if you go for a coffee or have something in their food-court. I'm predisposed to dislike Sainsbury's too, it's one of the 'flagship' stores in this place. I rarely go there. There's really no logic to this at all, nor any sense about it I just much prefer M&S. There's a recently opened Eddie Rockets in the centre. It has a barrier outside for crowd control. Dear help us, crowd control for a fast food joint. No thanks this business model relies on mostly industrially made food, they pay staff minimum wages with few employment rights, this chain also relies on freezers, microwave ovens and deep fat friers and they are at their most imaginative when it comes to maximising shareholder/franchise profit from pricing mass produced food. I'd say if they knocked 50% off the menu prices that would be realistic and I might go but I certainly wouldn't queue. So I'm not so opposed to this type of business model that I'd never go and I have twice gone to the subway outlet in this centre but only because the price better reflects the industrial pre (factory) made food on offer. The Subway coffee is awful and I'd only pay more and go here more if staff were paid living wages, after all we all have to live. So the chances of Eddie Rockets halving their prices are as realistic as my going to eat there. There's a Starbucks here and I walk to it quite often for good coffee, parking free elsewhere. There's a cinema in this centre too again I go occasionally - it reinvested in comfy seating and is pretty good cinema experience but again their food prices like popcorn and ice cream are just outrageous. This centre also has the usual suspects Debenhams, Boots, Car Phone Warehouse, a Pound Shop, a juice bar on the concourse (so no seating) a BurgerKing, Deli - Lites and so on, lots of places I haven't the remotest interest in ever visiting. The centre is kept clean the toilets are in the central part of the shopping centre although the two flagship stores at either end also have toilet facilities.

They rock, they have the largest selection of costumes I have ever seen. Very professional and…read moreGlenda is the Biz!

It is amazing. It has such a huge range of costumes and you get to try them on. The way the staff…read moretreat you is great, always asking if you need a hand and the prices can be really good! They hire costumes and sell costumes, wort a look.