Following on the extraordinary success and community interest from our Best Shops Ireland campaign last year, we are delighted to continue our partnership with Theshopkeepers.com to find and celebrate unique, creative and inspiring independent shops around Ireland. Extraordinary retailers, from coffee and flower sellers to bookshops and markets. Stores that delight with discovery and inspire browsing. Shops that we visit when we travel around the country or local ones that we love to return to again and again.

We believe it is important to continue to support our communities of local, small and independent shopkeepers that keep our towns and villages vital. Whether in real life or online.

We want to discover lots of lovely shops via your nominations. While we can’t include every shop on our list (it would be way too long!) with the help of our expert panel, we intend to shine a spotlight on the best. So, if you have discovered a fabulous shop, whether it’s a coffee shop, a flower and plant shop, food shop or market, menswear or womenswear boutique, accessories or beauty shop or a vintage, interiors, lifestyle or antique shop, we want you to share your knowledge with us!