The Ice men cometh for a warm shopping welcome

If you're shopping in the Blanchardstown centre this autumn, prepare to fight your way through hordes of blond shoppers snapping…

If you're shopping in the Blanchardstown centre this autumn, prepare to fight your way through hordes of blond shoppers snapping up bargains. So keen are they on splashing out the credit cards in Iceland that a tour operator is organising shopping trips to Ireland. And a special coach is being laid on to ferry the free-spending visitors from city centre hotels to Blanchardstown.

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