[6] By November 1969, the shopping centre was nearing completion of stage one of construction, with an estimated total cost of £1 million (equivalent to £20,789,474 in 2023).

[7] On 20 July 1970, Feargal Quinn, then managing director of Superquinn, announced at the Gresham Hotel that his company was planning to open a 22,000 square feet (2,000 m2) store in the shopping centre in the following months.

[13] The shopping centre was officially opened on 1 October 1970 by British television interviewer and radio disc jockey, Simon Dee.

[18] The centre was numbered among the property assets of NAMA; it was subsequently sold to Patron Capital for €49 million in 2015.

[20] The branch of Paddy Power bookmakers in the car park was one of the venues visited in a Channel 4's Undercover Boss episode 3, season 4.