High-end retail therapy gets really affordable

LOUIS COPELAND is offering 50% off a second item, beauty store neu blue eru is promoting 60% off selected products, and Fitzpatricks has handbags and shoes on sale for 30% and 50% off.

This is the scene at the Dublin Docklands Authority-owned chq building in the heart of the IFSC.

The building, which is a former wine and tobacco warehouse, is home to about 20 retailers, most high-end. They likely had a vision when they decided to open there two years ago. And it would have been hard to find a person to say they were making a mistake opening a luxury store at the height of the boom. The retailers wanted to lure the IFSC hotshots in to buy suits, dresses and €3,000 couches.