EUROSPAR Springfield Road
111–129 Springfield Road, Belfast, BT12 7AEOpen 24 hours · seven days a week
Inside the Springfield Road shopLiam McMahon SPAR in Belfast
Independent Belfast retailer Liam McMahon runs four SPAR and EUROSPAR shops across the city. Here you will find every Liam McMahon SPAR and EUROSPAR shop, with its address and opening hours, and what it means to shop at an independently run SPAR in Belfast.
One Belfast retailer, four neighbourhood shops
Liam McMahon runs four shops in Belfast under the SPAR and EUROSPAR names: EUROSPAR Springfield Road, SPAR Grosvenor Road, EUROSPAR Donegall Road and SPAR Twin Spires on Northumberland Street. They are not identical branches of one chain. Each is run for the neighbourhood it serves, which is why the opening hours and the services differ from shop to shop.
That is how SPAR works in Northern Ireland. Rather than company-owned branches, the shops are independent businesses run by local retailers, and the SPAR symbol group stands behind them with the brand, the buying power and the distribution. Customers get the national range and promotions to a consistent standard; the retailer decides what to stock for their own street and what hours suit the people who shop there.
For anyone shopping in these four shops, that means a named owner rather than a regional manager, and the same proprietor across several Belfast shops. You can read more about Liam McMahon as an independent Belfast retailer, or about Liam McMahon and independent retail in Northern Ireland.
Across Belfast
The four shops and their opening hours
Each shop keeps its own hours and serves its own neighbourhood. Only the EUROSPAR on Springfield Road is open around the clock.
SPAR Grosvenor Road
261 Grosvenor Road, Belfast, BT12 4LLMon–Fri 6:30am–9pm · Sat–Sun 7:30am–9pm
Visit the Grosvenor Road siteEUROSPAR Donegall Road
250 Donegall Road, Belfast, BT12 5NEMon–Fri 6am–11pm · Sat–Sun 7am–11pm
Visit the Donegall Road siteSPAR Twin Spires
Unit 17–21 Twin Spires Complex, 155 Northumberland Street, Belfast, BT13 2JF6am–9pm daily
Shopping at a EUROSPAR in Belfast
The EUROSPAR fascia marks the larger store format in the SPAR network, closer to a small supermarket than a corner shop, with the range to match: full grocery aisles for a weekly shop, fresh meat, fruit and vegetables, chilled and frozen food, and household and pet essentials.
What the network does not decide is how each shop trades. Keeping EUROSPAR Springfield Road open 24 hours, and putting a Post Office counter inside it, were Liam McMahon's decisions, made for the Springfield Road.
Open when most of the city is shut
Daytime convenience shopping is easy to find in Belfast; at four in the morning it is not. Hospital shift workers, trades who start before dawn, taxi and delivery drivers on nights, and students all find the same thing: most shops are shut. A EUROSPAR that stays open 24 hours, with a full grocery range, hot food and a fuel forecourt, meets that everyday need.
A neighbourhood shop, not a retail park
The Springfield Road shop sits among terraced streets, schools and small businesses rather than in a retail park, and that shapes what it carries: the weekly shop for households who would rather not drive to a superstore, the daily top-up for people walking past, and the essentials needed at hours when there is no alternative. See everything inside Liam McMahon's shop on Springfield Road, from the Post Office to the barista bar.