David Heather Footwear

My bro was blessed with BIG feet. Size14s, the biggest feet I have ever seen in real life.
Heathers and Mr Big are two of the very few shops in Ireland who stock his size. This really limits the style of shoe he can wear. But fortunately, as luck would have it, he’s still fond of a skater shoe, those big, padded, fat yokes that make his boat feet look even bigger. And these skatery shoes, like Vans, are stocked here in Heathers, and are usually on sale (probably as most other patrons of this store recognise that Vans don’t do a very good job of detracting attention from their already massive feet).
The range may be limited, but the aim is to stock something to suit everyone’s tastes.

Got big feet? Know someone who has? Perhaps you want to dress up like a clown? David Heather footwear is the shop for you.
It isn’t shy about what it sells, advertising its giant footwear — up to size 16! — with giant red lettering on its shop front. So, if you are little bashful about your humungous hoofs, then keep away — everyone will know why you are going in.

If you are into tall men with big feet or maybe small men with big feet then you should hang out here and let them trip you up on the way out.
Basically this place is honestly more of a local flavour to me because it’s been around for as long as I can remember. It’s a men’s shoe shop but for men with big feet! I just remember as a kid being fascinated by the size of the shoes and I was going through my phase of believing that giants lurched in hidden places due in part to reading Roald Dahls B.F.G. I still have yet to see anyone in the shop when I pass it, but it must being doing well because it’s a practically a Dublin landmark at this stage.

Heathers on Arran Quay is pretty much the only physical shop in Ireland where I have bought shoes in for the last six or seven years. Excluding one pair of flip-​flops and a pair of boots, both from TK Maxx, all of my other footwear purchases were in Heathers on Arran Quay.
This isn’t because Heathers have fantastic ranges or amazing service or unbelievable low prices. It is because I have unusually large feet. Size thirteens, specifically.
This rather limits my choice of footwear in other shoe shops, whose sizes often go up to only eleven (not unlike Nigel Tuffnell’s amp). Heathers is the only large shoe shop in Dublin, so it makes for a fairly un-​agonising decision as to where to go when I go shoe shopping.
Heathers range of shoes is decent, not brilliant. And the shoes there are expensive: it would be unusual to get change from € 100 for a pair of big shoes there. They’re pretty cheap for regular shoes; however their range tends to be quite old mannish. Heathers also have lots of displays of safety boots and snickers bottoms and hi-​vis jackets and such, so if you’re a tradesman, go crazy.
So if you’re fortunate enough to have normal sized feet, best not to bother your arse going to Heathers, the range isn’t that great and it’s a bit out of town. If you have big feet though, it means that you buy shoes with the unheard of luxury of being able to try them on beforehand (for all the innovations that broadband has brought about, it still isn’t possible to try on shoes over the internet).