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THE REOPENING OF the Light House Cinema in Smithfield, Dublin is to be made official tomorrow.
Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan is to attend the announcement tomorrow morning at the cinema on Smithfield Square at 9am. The photocall is being organised by new managers of the cinema, Element Pictures. While Element staff would not comment on the Light House last Friday when contacted by TheJournal.ie, the company’s Twitter account said “negotiations are ongoing”.
However, TheJournal.ie was able to confirm last Friday that the Light House would indeed be reopening, at the very least to hold screenings for the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.
Element Pictures also released a recruitment advertisement last Friday, looking for “a limited number of full and part-time cinema operatives” to work in a “new city centre cinema”.
Tomorrow’s photocall will also be attended by James Hickey, the head of the Irish Film Board; Element Pictures director Andrew Lowe; and Fionnuala Sweeney, head of the Film and International Arts for the Arts Council.
The cinema, which had been heralded as a shining light in the regeneration of the Smithfield area, closed down last April. Local TD Joe Costello had said last year that the cinema’s closure would turn the Smithfield area into “a ghost town” and a Facebook campaign was launched to try to save the cinema.
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When I was a kid, my mother put me in a duffel coat, scarf and gloves and off I went to school knee deep in snow. Today’s kids are Molly coddled. I blame the schools and parents. To think some schools closed in Dublin yesterday and we had no snow at all. Rap them up in cotton wool why don’t you. They’ll never grow up to be men or women with guts.
@Brian k.: and most of them getting dropped in 4 wheel drive jeeps and suv’s so its not as if they can’t get to the school
@and the hit’s just keep coming: yeah ??? That’s news to me
@Dave G Doe: Dinosaur? That was up to 20 years ago. All schools in Midleton opening late tomorrow. Forecast? -1degC! And Midleton area had very little snow. No sign of schools staying open later to compensate either. Complete overreaction because it’s going to be -6 at the other end of the county. Rant over.
@kevin rock: probably not in the inner city …..
@Brian k.:
@Brian k.: 100% correct Brian. A bunch of fragile incapables is what this country is now.
@and the hit’s just keep coming: not everyone drives a jeep and SUVs. So many gladiator men in the comment section.
@Tom O’ Donnell: I reside in Midleton and yeah the roads were good but the footpaths were lethal. Also a major factor would have been that a vast majority of students come in from neighbouring towns and villages. The responsibility of the school is to all students, not just those within walking distance.
@Brian k.: If a school has no water or no electricity due to weather then it should not open.
@Brian k.: things that didn’t happen
@Brian k.: what about the staff, many of whom have to drive over impassable snow and ice from rural areas to get to the school. The whole school community is not always in a position to put on duffel coats and walk to work.
Young lads these days prefer to be prancing around in their rainbow feather boas, growing up to be soft and not manly, real men go out for a game of hurling and come home to a good plate of stew
@Meatball Martin: no good television roll playing anymore like the a team, macgyver, knight rider, airwolf, blue thunder, chips, magnum pi, Miami vice and father Dowling.
School Boards have ultimate responsibility for the welfare of staff and students. Closures for these reasons are sensible and in the light of extreme weather will prevent injuries and ill health.
The lesson learnt from Covid is that education deserves central government supports not interference.
@Canon: See my comment above. Unfortunately local decisions aren’t necessarily sensible or even based on local information. Shortening the school day should be saved for exceptional circumstances, not normal circumstances, and the benefits of an action like this should always outweigh the downsides (loss of education, inconvenience to working parents etc.)
@Tom O’ Donnell: Impassible icy country roads is exceptional for us unfortunately, zero infrastructure for anything outside of base level, even then 67% of all road deaths happening in the countryside (thats without ice).
Young lads should be out playing hurling, make men out of them
@Meatball Martin: the sliotars on u
@Meatball Martin: you love to watch the young fellas in their shorts !?
@Meatball Martin: if you don’t play hurling that doesn’t mean you’re not a man.
If the IPA centres are so bad for the uninvited “guests”. I am sure we can go fund a cruise ship to send them back.
‘Invites’ are letterpress printed, gold foil, flock of doves :)
Why oh why oh why…does everything come back to the schools…
@Dramafree 2023: One of the v few decent systems we have, watch us destroy it.
It’s just a bit of snow ffs. A media driven frenzy to condition the masses for muh climate change
@Carl Valderrama: depends where you are, we can’t leave our estate for 3 days, so not everyone got that little bit of snow.
@Carl Valderrama: imo it’s been beautifully utilised by the Journal, WE create the fuss, they just report and post, ad revenue grows, people get paid.
@Thesaltyurchin: Its waay madder that people look out the window and automatically think ‘hmm the worlds weather must be this’ :’)
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