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is the annexe shop for the city's trendy young things, targeting an audience that wants to
look the contemporary part and set the tone for tomorrow. Brands include DKNY, Cus-
tom, Diesel, Ted Baker and Tommy Hilfiger.
LOUIS COPELAND
CLOTHING
( 01-872 1600;
www.louiscopeland.com
;
18-19 Wicklow St; 9am-5.30pm Mon-Wed, Fri & Sat, 9am-7.30pm
Thu; all city centre)
Dublin's answer to the famed tailors of London's Saville Row, this
shop makes fabulous suits to measure, and stocks plenty of ready-to-wear suits by interna-
tional designers.
SHERIDAN'S CHEESEMONGERS
FOOD
( 01-679 3143;
www.sheridanscheesemongers.com
;
11 South Anne St; 10am-6pm Mon-Fri, from 9.30am Sat;
all city centre)
If heaven were a cheese shop, this would be it. Wooden shelves are laden
with rounds of farmhouse cheeses, sourced from around the country by Kevin and Seamus
Sheridan, who have almost single-handedly revived cheese-making in Ireland. You can
taste any one of the 60 cheeses on display and pick up some wild Irish salmon, Italian pas-
tas and olives while you're at it.
BLARNEY WOOLLEN MILLS
( 01-671 0068;
www.blarney.com
;
27 Nassau St; 9am-6pm Mon-Sat, 11am-6pm Sun; all city centre)
This
is the Dublin branch of the best-known Irish shop in the country - the actual mills are loc-
ated in County Cork, within sight of the famous castle and its gab-bestowing rock. This
branch shouldn't disappoint, with a particularly wide range of cut crystal, porcelain
presents and its trademark woolly things.
IRISH CRAFTS
DESIGNYARD
( 01-474 1011; 48-49 Nassau St; 10am-5.30pm Mon-Wed & Fri, 10am-8pm Thu, 10am-6pm Sat)
A high-
end, craft-as-art shop where everything you see - glass, batik, sculpture, painting - is one-
off and handmade in Ireland. It also showcases contemporary jewellery stock from young
international designers. Perfect for that bespoke engagement ring or a very special
present.
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