I only ever go here if I'm going to Dunne's. The owner of the centre needs to drastically reduce…read morerent costs as most outlets keep closing down. The only other decent additions to Donaghmede Shopping Centre is Flying Tiger. No men's clothes stores, no tech / computer store and no cafes with vegan options. Requires much improvement in terms of choice, which can be solved with fairer rent on retail space.

Until the opening of Clarehall Shopping Centre a couple of years ago, Donaghmede was the sole…read moremedium-sized shopping centre in the north-east Dublin area. And depite the competion from the afore-mentioned Clarehall, Donghmede is still doing alright. Unfortunately, the clearest indication of this is the near impossibility of acquiring a parking space. Donaghmede's car park is very badly designed, all unusual acute angles that doesn't allow for many parking spaces. Preumably, there were a good deal more before the McDonalds opened on the site. Inside, there is a big Dunnes Stores, and lots of small, often unusual, independent shops. There's also a creepy statue of some kids dancing while holding hands, and expect to see a quota of tracksuited youths hanging around the place. For all of its peculiarities and impracticalities, I still retain a great deal of affection for place. Donaghmede Shopping Centre was built before the era of soulless megaliths of shopping centres, like Pavillions and Blanchardstown, all clean-lined designs with no personality. So for all its quirks, I'd still take it anyday over it's more ergonmonically designed but sterile successors.

What is this place? So you're probably a tourist in Dublin looking for a premium shopping…read moreexperience. Arnotts is the place to visit. I would describe it like the Bloomingdales or Saks 5th Avenue or Ireland. There's not a lot of options for individual luxury stores in the city so this place is a one-stop shop. Selections might be more limited because each store is smaller, but rest assured they have all the popular items. Tax-Free Shopping: For tourists (non-EU/GB residents), the tax-free shopping option is a huge plus. When you purchase your item, let them know you're interested in doing the tax-free rebate. You should bring your passport but the person who helped me said a photo was fine. They'll print out a receipt for you to submit to Planet at the airport. The minimum purchase is 75 euros to qualify. If the purchase amount of your goods is below 2,000 euros, you don't need to get a customs stamp at the airport. Just return your completed form at Planet desk after security or deposit it in the Planet drop box and they'll do it on your behalf. Considering the VAT is 23%, this is a great value for all you visiting shoppers. Don't forget to stop by this place and check it out before you leave town!

This Department store is close to where Gayle and I first stayed in Dublin. I limited my 2 visits…read moreto the Stationary Department, looking for cool pens and stationary products. They had a decent albeit, uninspiring selection of name brands, maybe being a reflection our expanding digital world. The only thing to show from my visits was a 2026 notebook insert product.

Staff sometimes seem irritated when you ask them for help. The variety of food in the food hall…read moreleaves a lot to be desired. And the salad bar counter is a joke. It is basically a salad bar that won't serve salads. They expect you to use the self service salad area (which mostly consists of pasta and rice). That is not a proper salad. I was in shock when the staff behind the salad bar counter refused to make me a salad. Do they not have a concept of customer service? Such a terrible experience. They also need to stop using the slogan "always better value", it is anything but better value. Honestly I'd just rather avoid this place and go to Tesco for real value, real quality and real variety. Honestly there isn't much difference between Dunnes Stores and a Spar store. But at least a Spar store will make you up a fresh salad. Get it together.

Well first of all here's my first review of this place. I've already done reviews on yelp only to…read morefind they've disappeared along with photos. So if this one disappears I won't be doing another one. Right here it is. If one considers the tourist office as the centre of Mullingar then this place is about an 8 to 10 minute walk. Mullingar is a charming Irish town with a lot of character and darn good foodie places. Just beside the tourist office stands a statue of Joe Dolan a famous Irish singer alas now dead. I'm pleased to say I saw him live and wow what an unusual voice. He had a number three hit in the UK in the 1969 when the charts had Elvis In the Ghetto (originally titled the Vicious Circle) David Bowie Space Oddity, Credence Clearwater Revival Bad Moon Rising with the amazing voice of John Fogerty who brought bluesy swamp rock to the hippie masses; Fogerty also holds the distinct honour of being one of the few musicians to be sued for sounding too much like himself. I digress again. This centre is a tad unusual as it has local businesses in it including a local barbers, a florist, a jewellers, a fruit & veg shop and a local butchers. Most shopping centres have the usual multi national and national names. This place has Boots, Holland & Barrett, a CarPhone warehouse and also has Dunnes Stores selling food & drink in one store and clothing and shoes in another store. The local butchers Tormeys has an on site Himalayan salt dry cure beef ager so I bought a few sirloins. I didn't need a coffee so avoided the Esquires coffee place. Worth a visit if you are close by.

This shopping centre is located on the Avoca river in Arklow. It's ok... The choice of shops isn't…read moreexactly what you'd call diverse. It's mostly made up of clothes shops, an Eddie Rockets and a cinema. It lacks variety, a gift shop or something would be a nice edition. The only thing close to a gift shop is either TK Mass or the Euro Giant. TK Mass can be quite expensive and the Euro Giant is... Well... It's full of cheap tat... It's kind of strange, but there's a strange correlation between the success of a shopping centre and the presence of a Euro Store. You'll often find that the ones that are struggling will have one and the more successful centres won't.

As these exurban monstrosities come, the Pavilions isn't actually that bad, but I loath out-of-town…read moreshopping centre, so there was never really a terribly good review in the works. Pavilions does have some decent shops. They've got a really big TK Maxx, a tiny Zara and a reasonable-ish sized H&M. There's only two places to sit down and have a cup of coffee, though: a Starbucks (always shite) and another horrible and over-priced café which may or may not be a Kay's Kitchen, but it's definitely in a similar vein. There's a Movies@ cinema there as well which I've not been to (nor am I likely to do so) as Pavilions is pretty much impossible to reach if you don't have a car. Not my first choice when attending to my shopping needs, but you may have gathered that already.

Pavilions is a big shopping centre in Swords. There are a variety of big stores here such as…read moreDunnes, Supervalu, Penneys and some smaller stores as well. Living in North Dublin I sometimes don't wanna head into town and fight the crowds to go to Penneys on O'Connell or Mary Street (I don't drive either) or when I need to get something from Argos. Pavilions is a nice alternate and I can get here in about 15 minutes (by bus). There are a few other standout stores I like here. I've mentioned Penneys and Argos. Aside from those I also really love the Boots here. It's a big Boots store and they've got a good selection of health and beauty stuff that some of the smaller Boots pharmacies won't carry. There is also a large McCabe's Pharmacy as well. There is a Kilkenny Gift Shop, which has Irish made gifts and handcrafts. It's a bit pricey, but if you're looking for something Irish made of high quality this is a great store. There are a few restaurants here, including some fast food types of places and cafes, and some dine in restaurants like Global Burger Kitchen. There is also a cinema, but I've haven't gone to see a movie here yet. Anyway depending on when you go it can be busy, but I haven't been here when it's too crazy. There are a variety of buses that stop just outside the shopping centre (if you don't drive). If you do drive there is a fair amount of parking available.

Needed luggage fast and cheap. Perfect for a duffel bag. Staff was friendly and gave me a little…read morediscount

Right, so the know the way that TK Maxx is great idea (cheap clothes and low prices and all that…read morelark). But, you'll also not have failed to notice that it doesn't work out that well in practice - a scrum of people rifling through aisles and aisles of clothing, everyone getting all sweaty and bothered before they try on the t-shirt that you were thinking of buying. Eew. And the TK Maxx in the Pavilions in Swords was no different to the other ones all the other times that I've been there, except that you can't go to a nice coffee shop to recuperate afterwards, as you are in the hell that is a gargantuan suburban shopping centre, and you have to make do with a shitty and soulless Kay's Kitchen. Double eew. All of that changed earlier on today, however. For this morning (Monday) I went to TK Maxx in Swords and hardly recognised the place. There were literally only about another twenty or thirty in this vast shop, so there wasn't the usual feverish mill that one associates with the chain. I was there a little over an hour, and in that time, I managed to pick out and purchase 4 jumpers (in the summer, I know, I'm a tool. And they were all knitwear into the bargain.) Within this relatively small window, I also tried on but rejected about six t-shirts. You know when you have one of those days with the TK Maxx t-shirt aisle? Yeah, it was one of those days. This sparseness of shoppers makes sense, though: people would tend to be in town during the week, and so might stop off at TK Maxx and make it all horrible and crowded and sweaty. Whereas people only go to horrible retail monstrosities like the Pavilions at the weekends. So, if you want to stock up on your cheap designer labels, head out to 'burbs on a weekday morning and escape a little of the drudgery.

The only good thing about this place is the Tesco. I remember being ever so excited about a KFC…read morebeing a mere ten minute walk from my house. That was until I actually went there. That's a different review though. There's not enough shops to really call it a shopping centre. Everything looks shoehorned into the building, as if they designed the Tesco first and realised they had extra room. The whole place is generally quite depressing and there's always a bag of skangers hanging around the doors. The architecture is quite stupid as well. They could have fit so much more in here if they utilised that big yawning void of space above the food court. In short, not a nice place unless you're doing the weekly grocery shop.

This place is just a really big Tesco with few fast food place strewn about the place…read more I love this place because it's easy to get in and get out. There is always parking, and never seem crowded. It's a great place to do your weekly shopping. Plus the post office is dead handy as well.

It's a Penny's . Looks bad on the outside but its not too bad inside. Women clothes is straight in…read moreand if you take a left when you come in you have the men's section.