Shopping Centres
Out of town shopping centres, anchored by a major supermarket, have been developed in Ireland since the 1960s, with Dunnes Stores' Cornelscourt being one of the first. A precursor of the 1990s town centres was developed in Stillorgan in the late 1960s, as well as the two major Dublin city centre shopping malls, the Ilac Shopping Centre and Irish Life Shopping Mall. (These were joined in the 1990s by the Jervis Centre).
However in the 1990s a new phenomenon of large shopping malls, not dominanted by one tenant but with a number of anchor tenants, main street names, and usually a cinema, grew up in the Dublin suburbs. These four major town centres, in order of building, are The Square, Tallaght, Blanchardstown Centre, Liffey Valley Shopping Centre, and Dundrum Town Centre.
In Munster, shopping centres have also emerged on the outskirts of Cork, Limerick and Waterford cities catering not just for the city residents but also for the suburban and country shoppers, such as Mahon Point in Cork, Crescent Shopping Centre in Limerick and City Square Shopping Centre in Waterford.
In Connacht, shopping centres have primarily developed in the centre and outskirts of Galway city including the Eyre Square Centre, Edward Square, Galway Shopping Centre and Briarhill Shopping Centre, elsewhere in The large towns of Sligo and Castlebar centres such as The Quayside and Johnston Court centres have been developed offering many new international and national retailers to these areas.
Read more about this topic: Retail In The Republic Of Ireland
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