Pride & Joy

Pride and Joy is of a type of shop that was once very common in Ireland that is now passing (at least in Dublin, at any rate).
Located on the first floor of the Donaghmede Shopping Centre, Pride and Joy in one those toy shops that specialise in cheap unfashionable toys that would probably be sneered at by the children of today, but would be considered to have great kitsch value by nostalgic twenteens.
You know the type of shitty toys that you got as kid: plastic bow and arrows, toy guns that light up and make a noise, non-​brand name dolls that would be looked down upon by the recipient for not being a Baby-​Born. Very un-​PC, guns for little boys and dollies for little girls, isn’t it?
That’s what makes this shop so charming: the absolute sense of being stuck in a time warp the moment you enter the store. The most modern item I saw in the window was a micro-​scooter (at least 10 years since those were en vouge), which next to a display of Power Rangers (surely they haven’t been made in years).
Absolutely worth a visit.