Not sure if it's allowed to recommend individual shops on here, but I'm going to anyway!
If anyone lives or is holidaying in Ireland and Northern Ireland I've got a couple of shops I can recommend from visiting them over the past week. With the prominence of the internet stores there are less and less good model shops out there in the towns and cities so I thought it would be good to point them out incase anyone wanted to support a shop whilst they were in the area.
Firstly, I can thoroughly recommend finding a shop in Belfast called My Old Toy Box. It's only about a 15minute walk from the city centre and is found in a slightly old fashioned indoor market. The shop has a really good collection of models including a lot of 1/72 figures-especially Hat and Italeri. They also had odds and ends of Revell, esci, ACTA, Zvezda, Imex and Ehmar. They also have an upstairs area for rarer second hand sets and they had a lot of old Airfix and a few hard to get Revell sets. Prices were very good from what I could see (I paid £5.25 each for Hat Gatling gun and Hat British zulu command). They also had a huge selection of paints, scenics etc and had die cast models, Subbuteo (the football game) and other collectables. I've taken a few photos of a selection of their shelves (with their permission!) to give you an idea as to what the shop was like.
Secondly, I visited a small shop in Limerick (Mid/South Ireland) called The Gathering. It's only a 15 minute walk from the main shopping streets. The selection of 1/72 is quite small (a mix of Italeri, Ehmar, Zvezda, Imex) and the prices aren't the cheapest, but it was a really nice shop to visit. They also had a selection of Warlord 28mm and paints/scenics. What was impressive was that they seem to paint a lot of the figures themselves in the shops in-between customers and the standard was very good. They had a huge selection of Zulu war figures all painted and based ready for an event they were attending.