Re: Re: well what about the developments popping up in the shannonside ?

They are opening a full size store in The Opera House.
From The Sunday Business Post:
http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2008/02/24/story30619.asp

Marks & Spencer is also understood to have decided to open a larger shop than originally proposed in The Opera Centre in Limerick.

The firm is to open a department store of nearly 8,400 square metres, far larger than the Simply Food store it originally intended to open. The letting is a coup for Jerry O’Reilly, Terry Sweeney and David Courtney, who bought the site for the shopping centre last year. When complete it will have 40,000 square metres of shopping space over two main levels with smaller floors elsewhere.

The openings are part of M&S plans to increase its presence in Ireland by 30 to 40 per cent over the next five years.

It was confirmed last week that the firm would open in the Deerpark shopping centre in Killarney, Co Kerry. It will trade from a unit of 2,000 square metres there, alongside other tenants include New Look, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Argos and Homebase.

Boots is also to open in the centre, trading from a 556 square metre unit. DTZ Sherry FitzGerald is letting the two remaining units.