We’re all culprits of last-minute shopping, even though we vowed last year that this Christmas would be different! The weather was horrendous, your Christmas party hangover lasted a week, you simply couldn’t be bothered; whatever your excuse, time has run out.
Thankfully we’re here and there’s no need to fret. Dublin City centre has an array of choice, one-stop shops so that you can run into town and we promise you’ll be done in a couple of hours.
Here are our last-minute gift ideas for the loved ones in your life.
Nespresso Machine (For the coffee Lover)
Nespresso, South Anne Street
‘Coffee, because Sleep is Overrated’
Perfume (For your Granny)
€61 – Arnotts Henry Street
Valentino Donna, a hint of elegance.
Joe Malone Candles (For the Mammy)
Brown Thomas, Grafton Street
No Irish mother will turn their nose up at a Jo Malone gift set with its decedent scent
Dine in Dublin Vouchers (For the Foodie)
From €10 DineinDublinVouchers.ie
It doesn’t get much better than over 50 Restaurants to try and choose from with one Voucher! Buy here.
Ordinary Joe by Joe Schmidt (For the Sports Fan)
€19.99 Easons, O’Connell Street
The perfect stocking filler for any Rugby fans in your life.
Scratch Map (For the Wanderlust)
€24.95, B-Cool – Gadget Store, Jervis Street
Scratch Map is absolutely brilliant! Its the perfect way to show off where you’ve been traveling while livening up your wall with a colourful world map. Scratch Map is an amazingly high quality, uber-massive wall map, featuring a gold top foil layer.
L‘Occitane Cade Shaving Duo (For the Dad or the man in your life)
€39.00 Liffey Street
L‘OCCITANE has a number of gift sets for men like this Cade Shaving Duo, the perfect duo for a classic grooming ritual. Enriched with a purifying and stimulating complex of cade essential oil, protecting shea butter, moisturising vegetable-based glycerine, soothing bisabolol and firming extract of birch sap, this set contains all the essentials for a perfect shave. Includes:
• 150ml Cade Shaving Gel
• 75ml Cade After Shave Balm
• in a L’OCCITANE signature gift box.
The Polar Express: Mini Hardback Edition (For the kids at heart)
€9.50 – Tales for Tadpoles
This beloved tale of Christmas Eve is a family favourite at this time of year. The story is about late on Christmas Eve, after the town has gone to sleep, a boy boards a mysterious train that waits for him: the Polar Express bound for the North Pole. When he arrives there, Santa offers him any gift he desires. The boy modestly asks for one bell from the reindeer’s harness. It turns out to be a very special gift, for only believers in Santa can hear it ring.
There is so much more to explore in #DublinTown and shopping streets like Grafton Street and Henry Street are filled with great retailers as are the many side streets just off each of them so go to town when you are last minute shopping this year!
