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CLOTHESLINES: Straitened times generate extra efforts to make us spend

CLOTHESLINES:Straitened times generate extra efforts to make us spend. The latest offer from Kildare Village is an express coach service from Dublin direct to the designer outlet and back.

The Gray Line tour bus departs every Friday and Saturday from the Gresham Hotel on O'Connell Street, Dublin 1, at 10am, with another pick-up at Dublin Tourism Centre on Suffolk Street, Dublin 2, before heading off on the one-hour journey to the Village. The return bus leaves at 3.30pm. The service will run every weekend up to Saturday, December 27th and tickets, priced at €15 each, include a €10 gift card to spend at the Village. See www.irishcitytours.com.

Deirdre McQuillan

Deirdre McQuillan

Deirdre McQuillan is Irish Times Fashion Editor, a freelance feature writer and an author