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One happy kid… SUN7JULY24

t was very gracious of three-times champ Fiona Roche to abdicate her Top Of The Shops throne this year so people could vote for, as she says, all the other wonderful Greystones businesses out there…

And the lady was right, with the likes of Halfway Up The Stairs, Brooke & Shoals, Washt! and Beautyful By Jenny all getting a whole lotta love from the town’s fired-up folk.

The one with the mostest votes for 2024 in this AIB Greystones-sponsored competition though proved to the one-woman toy shop wonder known as Dlulukaloo.

Which is pronounced, eh, Dlulukaloo, being a blend of the first two words spoken by founder Vicky Noble’s kids. Jumping back in time, Vicky provides everlasting wooden toys for sale or rent, making the move from working online out of her Crowe Abbey kitchen to the local markets before finally going overground at the Tesco Shopping Centre in June 2023 by joining forces with Danielle Murphy and her Pom Pom Boutique kids clothing business. In January of this year, Vicky went solo, and turned The Little Emporium into a space where other online small local online businesses could operate in the real, tactile, same-second-delivery world.

Small local businesses such as My Happy Space, Oak & Olive Home, Bear’s Little Fish, Rumi Kids Boutique, Kids Love Cotton, Love Livie and Turas Leather are all currently sitting pretty in The Little Emporium alongside the award-winning Dlulukaloo.

With co-worker Jen desperately trying to hide from the GG camera, we presented Vicky with her much-prized Top Of The Shops award this afternoon, and tried to uncover the secret of her success…

You can find out more about Dlulukaloo right about here, and check out our previous Top Of The Shops winners right here. And fair fecks to Niamh and AIB Greystones for sponsoring once again.