Oxfam

Now the best thing that I can tell you about Oxfam shops and not just this one in Dun Laoghaire is that if you take your old or unwanted Marks and Spencer clothes here you get given a voucher for M & S for the value of € 7 — per item.
AND you can be sneaky and take an item in there each time and get one voucher — got to be good.

This Oxfam conforms much more closely to the commonplace ‘charity chop’ archetype that I was much more familiar with before coming into contact with the new-​age Fair-​trade shops. This place is awash with semi-​decent second-​hand clothes and hand-​me-​downs, old ornaments, used videos and cassettes, and baskets bursting with cast-​off scarves, ties and sunglasses to rummage through. It is this longstanding custom when it comes to charity shops that I enjoy and that I particularly admire about this branch. It has remained faithful to the charity shop practice of old. You can really get stuck in here and have a good delve through the assemblage of relics minus any of this counterfeit fair-​trade gobbledygook.
Being located in Dun-​Laoghaire the shop isn’t waterlogged with the same upper-​crust hand me downs as charity shops closer to town would boast (in light of the fact that there are some fairly affluent areas South of/​and in and around central Dublin and so the model suburban resident would expectedly have high-​quality clothes to ‘hand down’) but nonetheless there are some interesting assets to be unearthed and hence more than worth a visit if you are in the area.

I like how Oxfam have specialised a number of there outlets, like the bookstore on Parliament Street and the ethnic shop on King Street, this Oxfam in Dun Laoghaire hasn’t been specialised in anyway and I think that given the abundance of charity shops in the area it could do with having a specific purpose.
This Oxfam has a reasonable selection of second-​hand clothes and other sundry items at absolute bargain prices. The selection isn’t quite as good as some of the other charity shops in Dun Laoghaire though and I would check Barnardo’s in particular before taking the plunge.