Golden Island Shopping Centre

The centre contains 45 units, including clothing retailers (such as Penney's and Diesel), health shops, mobile phone providers, cosmetic shops (such as Boots), jewelry shops and restaurants and cafés (such as Costa Coffee and Burger King) There is plans to add another restaurant unit, beside the cinema, in the future. The anchor unit at the eastern end of the centre is a large Tesco supermarket, selling food and clothes. The Tesco unit was originally intended to be a Quinnsworth supermarket, but Quinnsworth was acquired by Tesco shortly prior to the shopping centre opening.^[9][10]

The shopping centre also contains an IMC cinema, which opened in 1998 with six screens and a capacity of 871 seats. There have been plans put in place to add 4 new screens and to renovate the cinema but this has yet to commence development. ^[11][12] This cinema replaced the former, four-screen, Showcase Cinema, which was located above the old Athlone Shopping Centre in Irishtown, and which opened in May 1992 and closed in early 1998, when the operator of the Showcase Cinema went into partnership with the IMC to open the cinema in the Golden Island shopping centre. Prior to that, there had been no cinema in Athlone following the closure of the Ritz Cinema located beside the Shannon bridge in 1985 and the closure in the late 1970s of the Adelphi Cinema located in Garden Vale.^[13][14]