In 1985, Irish Life owned over 1.5 million square feet of office space in Dublin, making it the largest single freeholder in the city.

[3] A consultancy firm was engaged to study the situation and in an attempt to recover business, the centre was renamed in April 2013 as the Talbot Mall,[6] as part of a broader rebranding which also saw some vacant units redesigned with 3D-visuals to look like prospective shops.

[7] As of March 2021 permission was sustained on appeal for a further development, which would end the operation of the mall, replacing it with a single Lidl supermarket, and extinguishing the passage between Talbot and Abbey Streets.

[1] Past tenants of the shopping centre have included an Easons branch on Talbot Street, Dealz, a pharmacy, hair and beauty salon, jewellers, travel agency, drapery and Hugh O'Regan's Life Bar (which for a time operated as Floridita).

[11] The wider complex comprises nine buildings, two of which are primarily residential, the remainder mostly offering office space, with the mall running through the ground floor of one.

[4] A sculpture by Oisín Kelly was at first directly in front of the Irish Life HQ building but was later moved to be closer to, and more visible from, Abbey Street.