It's perhaps a trifle untimely that I am writing this review at this point rather than later on, as I shall have to pay John Quill a visit in the near future, as I lost the last pair of glasses that John prescribed me the last night I was in Rí-Rá. It's unlikely that I shall have sufficient liquidity to replace them anytime soon though, so I might as well squint at the computer screen and write the review now.
Quill's have been serving the health and well-being, ocular and otherwise, of the good people of Killester for nigh on forty years. Dennis Quill, John's father, ran a chemist where John's office currently is; John opened his optician practice when his father died almost twenty years ago.
John is very pleasant man, and has been the optician for two generations of my myopic family. I got my first pair of glasses from John about two years ago, my eyesight worsening later than is customary for a member of my family. John is a very friendly and jovial man, and tested my eyes in no time at all. He then asked me to pick out frames for my glasses; I had been apprehensive about this part, as I was worried that he would only stock a range of terribly old-man, unfashionable frames (my Dad also gets his glasses from John Quill). However, the first frames he suggested looked great, they used to make me look the right hot nerd, I'm very pissed off that I lost them.
So when I am feeling profligate enough to consider splashing out on non-blurry vision, John Quill's in Killester will be my first port of call. read more