Murtagh’s Hardware and DIY

I can’t help myself, whenever I’m in Sandymount I’ve got to drop in to Murtagh’s for a peek at the shelves. Sometimes it’s just to see what they’ve brought in (compost pots AND toy trains?!), but always for Christmas.
Every November Murtagh’s converts from mild-​mannered hardware store (home of garden chairs, stew pots, rubber washers and Bord Na Mona firelogs) to full-​on Christmas (and hardware) bazaar.
Really.
Besides keys cut and bulbs fit, the cheery lads of Murtagh’s are Christmas tree lumberjacks, lifters and occasional lashers of said trees to the roof of your Renault Clio without scratching the paint. Stop in any afternoon to pick the live spruce of your jingle dreams, they’ll help with the rest.
Most years there’s also a good selection of fake trees inside –one year a very sweet little plastic number from straight off the display stand found a home, ornaments and all, in the living room of a very cheered future Unilocaler.
It’s lovely to know these small businesses can thrive despite larger econo-​woes. As long as they’re open Murtagh’s can be sure of a very loyal patronage, nails, twine and all.

Blown a light bulb? Run out of paint? Need a new bin, a sweeping brush, lampshade, birdfeeder, bag of compost, mouse trap, screws, nails or a hammer? Murtagh’s is the place to pop in for all your hardware and DIY needs.
If you’re planning on doing a considerable amount of DIY it is best to stock up elsewhere as the prices here are a good bit higher than the bigger hardware shops like Woodies, but for little odds and ends it’s great. It is independently owned too which gets the thumbs up.

It’s 4pm on a Saturday, I have just started putting up those book shelves that I promised I’d do last January and I realise I have no plaster board plugs… this is not an entirely fictional emergency! So, I hammer down to sandymount hardware where the guy behind the counter of this really very small shop manages to find a selection of the above plugs, lifesaver… the shelves through no fault of the plugs, fell down 3 days later.
The shop has just about everything you could possibly need from pot plants, fuel for the fire to clothes lines and of course, plasterboard plugs. A great shop to have on the door step and the guys behind the counter are always there with helpful advice.