What are your childhood memories of Christmas?

Shopping expeditions with your parents, glistening street lights, carol singers and the hustle and bustle of busy streets? Christmas viewed from young eyes was magical and, it still is!

While time is the essence in our busy world’s today and online shopping may seem the easy option for shopping for our nearest and dearest, virtual can never replicate the atmosphere of real-time shopping.

That’s why Shannon Chamber would ask to you stop and shop local – in Co Clare – this Christmas. With plenty of choice available in Shannon, Bunratty and Ennis and in the towns and villages throughout the county, free parking and a lot of investment gone into making shopping atmospheric, why go anywhere else this Christmas or indeed at any time of year.

Our shopping centres and towns can only be as good as the footfall they receive; that’s what prospective retailers judge a location on when making a decision to invest.

Our motto this year is therefore:

Stop Local; Shop Local and Relish the Experience