Clegg’s

There are lots of shoe repair places about but none I would trust the way I trust Cleggs to:
1. do a proper job
2. not to rip me off!
Love the place, love the staff, love the work that they do,

I needed a set of keys cut a few months back and found myself in the Stephens Green shopping centre where they charged me € 12 a key for simple house keys! The turn around time was 2 hours as well.
Today I needed another set of keys for a new home and Clegg’s not only performed the key cutting in less than a minute, I was able to leave with two keys, a key ring, and two color indicators for less than € 10. The man behind the counter was very nice. Although I did not get my shoes fixed, several customers came and when while I was standing there putting keys on their rings and noticed everyone was quite satisfied with the service, price, and work.

I was traveling via Shannon on my way to London when my camera strap broke a day before I was to catch the ferry for the next part of my trip. Clegg’s fixed it on the spot with great cheerfulness, the good humour extending to a younger employee or two humming current US popular music and kind of grinning at their gentle joke while they worked. By my recollection the repair was essentially free by hometown standards.
The experience made the next few weeks in England and back in Ireland much easier and photographically — at the very least, probably also attitudinally — much better.

Aw, I was going to make some witty observation about shoe repair and key cutting always going hand it hand, but it looks like I’ve been beaten to it. Twice.
I can’t speak to their shoe repair, but buying a couple of locks here was a pleasure. The gentleman insisted on giving me a little walk-​through of the combination-​setting process, which turned out to be more useful than I had expected. If their shoe repairs are conducted as honestly and thoroughly then I can understand how they have weathered the hard times so well.

Clegg’s is the place to go if you need your favourite pair of high heels re-​heeled. I used to bring my shoes here all the time and they had them fixed in no time and the heels looked like new.
Block heels, spindly heels, kitten heels… they can fix them all. And best of all, if you can bring a spare pair of heel-​caps (the plastic bits at the end of your heels) they will put them on for you in about five minutes and I had to pay about 5 Euro.

If you’re the kind of person that looses keys on a regular basis, drop by at Clegg’s and have them make spare sets to keep around the house. They do cutting of approximately two thousand key types so unless you need to copy some magic keys that will unlock prison-​cells or secret doors, they’ll sort you out in no time.

As Ciara pointed out shoe repairs and key cutting somehow always find a place together in shops!
The man working behind the counter may have been as old as the shop itself, which is the draw for this place. It’s old-​fashioned in every way and not flashy and you know it’ll still be there tomorrow.
I went in to get my keys cut and the service was absolutely excellent. They were super friendly and extremely quick! I got quite a few keys copied and I was surprised at how cheap it was I don’t think it cost me more than € 2.
I haven’t gone in to get my shoes repaired, but I’ve heard they do excellent work with that as well. My friend got a pair of shoes that were a size too small and they stretched them for her and voila perfect fitting shoes!

Cleggs is one of those old-​school cobbler shops that have emerged out the other side of the Celtic Tiger without a scratch of modernity on them.
The front window is full of odds and ends relating to shoe repair and key cutting (interesting how the two so often go hand in hand), and the interior is shabby but full of character.
No doubt these guys will be seeing their trade increase over the next while as people revert to re-​heeling their old shoes instead of rushing out to replace them.