Dundrum Town Centre, Ireland’s biggest shopping centre, celebrates its 20th birthday today.
It opened on March 3rd 2005 and now around 15 million people on average head through the doors each year.
There’s more than 160 shops and restaurants, along with a cinema and bowling alley across 1.2 million square feet.
Nelly was top of the charts, the Luas wasn’t even a year old and Ireland was still riding the Celtic Tiger wave.
Retail business manager, Conor McDaid, says they’ve had famous faces including Mike Tyson, Matt Damon shopping over the year – and even Michael Jackson:
"I'm not sure the purpose of his visit, but he just appeared. Now we knew he was coming, we didn't know the purpose of the visit, he came, he looked and he went".
Inside Dundrum Town Centre in Dublin. Picture by: Peter Cavanagh/Alamy Stock PhotoMeanwhile shoppers told 98FM about their DTC memories.
"20 years , it just feels like- crazy . I'm getting old!," one shopper told us.
Another said, "We've been there from the start, we've probably lived in nearly every apartment around Dundrum. It's like our second home".
"The people... thousands just flocked through the doors, people were blown away by the size of the shopping centre," Catherine Gregg remembers.
She heads up the 60-strong cleaning staff and has worked at Dundrum since day one.
In that 20 years, we've had six Taoisigh, four American Presidents and every iPhone ever.
Reporting by Emma Tyrell.
