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A MAN IN his 30s has died after his motorbike collided with a 4×4 vehicle near Laragh in Co Wicklow this afternoon.
It happened on the R755 Laragh to Annamoe Road at around 12.30pm.
The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene, gardaí said in a statement.
His body has been removed to St Columcille’s Hospital in Loughlinstown. The driver of the 4×4 was uninjured.
“This stretch of road is currently closed to facilitate an examination by Garda Forensic Collision Investigators and local diversions are in place,” gardaí said.
Anyone who witnessed the crash is being asked to contact Wicklow Garda Station on 0404 60140, the Garda Confidential Telephone Line on 1800 666 111 or any Garda station.
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2002 is the last time I went to the cinema. Over rated and expensive. A pizza, glass or 3 of wine and a good film at home is a more enjoyable experience. Yes, I’m getting old; yes I still have a dvd player!
@Connoroconner: Would you go to the cinema if you could get pizza and wine there?
@Connoroconner: I love the cinema – from my school days to now, over 40 years. Just enjoy it, my own time and hopefully no tw$t looking at their phone near by
@Connoroconner: yeah I think the overpricing of food is something that really puts be off. Although I did like the €5 midweek deals some chains do.
@Simon O Flaherty: If you can’t sit through a film without stuffing your face, then stay at home. If you want food, go to the chipper.
@Connoroconner: boring
@Thomas Byrne: that’s where the wine comes in!
@brenjamin: I love bringing a bag ‘o’ chips to the cinema along with a kebab. That’s my favourite thing to do. Now I can just fill my mask with chips and feed on it like a horse. Yum yum.
@brenjamin: It’s the food that keeps the cinema’s open. they don’t make nearly enough with just tickets.
@Simon O Flaherty: Are you aware the admission price mostly goes to the company that actually produce the movies? How else do you reckon film companies make money?
Way too soon unless face coverings are mandatory 100% no exceptions.
Popcorn? Yep it wouldn’t work.
@Mick Staines: so socially distanced isn’t good enough for you? Better wait till they go bust and more people lose their jobs
@Mick Staines: dark screen. Wouldn’t work
@Wheresmyjumper: lol, is it something that is high on many peoples list or essential to do. No.
Sorry, people forget that we want to get as much going in ireland as possible, throwing in crap non essential stuff is just going to get us back to last March in no time.
If not going to the cinema or on holidays means that some people get to work or elderly get to go outside, so be it.
@RJ: with all the new measures in place throughout the country, we will never go back to March.
@RJ: close the pubs so?
@RJ: old people can go outside and there is zero chance of them getting in while going for a walk, but as long as paying your mortgage doesn’t come from the hospitality sector what do you care? Keep everything closed till we have a vaccine after all whats essential? Bread and water everything else is non essential and should be shutdown
@Mick Staines: face masks in cinema is achievable but does away with the enjoyment ie popcorn sweets drimks alcohol or you could look at it and say cases are low so distancing should be enough
The choice is up to the cinema and cinema goers
@Richard Doherty: alcohol in the cinema?!
@Keith Fay: right, so everyone you think will take the precaution. We still have so many people carrying on as if, not me, I’m fit, nothing to do with me.
@Wheresmyjumper: not just walking.
Yeah, now your gettting it. Hospitality sector is a cost of this so others can get back to work.
Either way, as you may know, hospitality sector open or closed is nothing near what it was last January, people will vote with there feet.
@Wheresmyjumper: not true at all. I live close enough to a hospital. Where staff dealing with people who have it are also walking in the neighbourhood. Given so many health workers have caught it they can spread it. So when my elderly mother goes for a walk in the same area her risk of exposure is high even with social distancing. The elderly neighbours are meeting each other sort of maintaining social distancing. One infection in these neighbours could cause the whole street to get it. Complacency has already kicked in
@Craic_a_tower: the risk is not high outside with social distancing, to say it is wrong and alarmist, my elderly fathers house backs on a hospital carpark he has zero chance of getting covid in the back garden as your mother has zero chance of getting it walking past a socially distanced healthcare worker outside. Its not a time to be complacent but is it a time to be realistic
@jzT: You can get wine/prosecco and beer in a lot of cinemas now
@RJ: well as long as you can still pretend to be a trader in your parents backroom who cares about the 1000′s of people who depend on the hospitality sector, its just a cost of covid
@Wheresmyjumper: lol. Lov it.
Poor you think opening the hospitality sector and all will be well. Big shock coming for you.
@RJ: they have no choice – buildings with one way systems, everything socially distanced, reduced numbers allowed almost everywhere, hygiene increased everywhere, hand wash stations. None of this was in place in March, if a second wave happens we are very prepared and conditioned to deal with it better. And of course there will always be a few idiots.
@RJ: i’ll be alright thanks, you might be in for a shock when, your parents ask you to move out, you’ve lost what little money you have on the markets because you aren’t as clever as you think, your degree in politics or economics is useless and when you discover that no wants to hire a smug gowl..enjoy!
@Wheresmyjumper: the protection of anonymity :-) .
@Trish O’Leary-Dunne: Really? My local cinema doesn’t. Lucky duckies!
@RJ: worked for Clark Kent
@jzT: why not? the Stella cinema in rathmines, beer, cocktails and hot food all delivered to your comfy chair, or bed for that matter
@jzT: yes cinemaworld alows one drink in the cinema
Hasn’t been anything worth going to the cinema for in a long time. Was looking forward to Bond but that was postponed.
@Pj: Thats the only film I would consider going to. After last years superhero blowout there was a big hole in 2020′s releases anyway so I wouldn’t have gone to most films.
@Pj: Bill and Ted 3!
@Pj: Tenet!
I go to the cinema about every two weeks.
Midweek just over a fiver.
Only issue is people looking at their phones during the movie.
Put it away you tool!
@Pj: cannot wait for the king’s man & top gun
Would love to get back to going to the cinema again, unfortunately I can’t see it happening for a long time.
007 was the big one to see but that and so many others have been pushed back.
This year will probably be the worst Hollywood has ever suffered.
In the meantime, I’ve bought myself an atmos surround sound system, and am expecting a 70” 4K TV & UHD player to be delivered shortly.
The attic has been cleared during lockdown, decorating is just finished and that’s going to become our cinema.
Have loads of movies on preorder and have a load been delivered waiting to be watched.
Did the insulation, drywall, flooring and plastering myself. Have it painted in muted colours, dimmer lights in place and no windows. Couple of sofas going up this weekend, perfect.
@Sequoia: Ok, with a 70” screen…. I wouldn’t have a room to utilize it ;-)
@Sequoia: Wishing you many happy hours up there!, enjoy…
@8-Bit-Relic:
Was going to go for a 100” screen and projector but the TV is the perfect size for the space.
Although I would have loved bigger, diminishing returns means that you would have been looking around the screen rather than at it.
@Kate Flaherty:
I may never leave the house again :)
@Sequoia: I presume we’re all invited for the opening screening?!
@Sequoia: need to add Atmos to my home setup. I hope you enjoy.
@Sequoia: As a fan of big movies I congratulate you and wish you a lot of fun.
You have actually given me an idea… :-)
@Sequoia: wow sounds amazing, there’ll be no getting you downstairs again:). Enjoy the fruits of your labour.
@Sequoia: the problem with any screen over 60″. To have cinema feeling you need to sit close but then if too close you look everywhere. I have a 55″ and sit 2m away, that’s about the right distance especially when you watch netflix and need to read subtitles (for foreign stuff) the pic gets blurry from time to time
This is one of the places I’d be avoiding most.people laughing coughing eating in the same sweaty room for 3hours.thats just asking for it
@Bartron5000: what was last film you went to see??! Gone with the wind.. 3hours in cinema
@nelliekel: Between trailers and ads and credits…. it’s pretty close. Loved Gone with the Wind!
@nelliekel: Agengers endgame
No I watch the new government instead for a while I like drama
I love the big screen but I’m afraid I’ll wait a while. Would be like a giant celluloid petri dish at the moment.
No, I’d rather stream my movies at home and not have to wear a face covering! Going to the cinema won’t be the same experience as before.
Went to the gate in Cork last night and will be going to the Omniplex over the weekend. Happy to take the classics I’ve seen before while I wait for new releases. Once you make your selection 2 seats on all sides of you are unavailable for selection by the next person. With only 50 people per screen at the moment there is also plenty of room if you want to go more than the 2 seat distance. For me I’d take the cinemas opening over pubs any day of the week for where I want to spend my time and money but different strokes for different folks.
When you book a seat at omniplex, it automatically blocks out two seats to your right, two seats to your left, one seat in front of you and one seat behind you. I think that is safe social distancing.
You have to book tickets online.
Popcorn etc has to be pre purchased online and collected so there’s no transfer of money and limited queueing.
@John Moloy: yeah I never had to get up from a seat while in the cinema and move down the row.
@John Moloy: sounds like so much fun!
Even before covid, cinemas were over priced. Like a lot of businesses, they need to start thinking of getting customers back in the short term rather than worry about profits, because people will just stream legally or other wise at home when its cheaper and be able to have their own treats rather than go to the local cinema and pay nearly 10 euro for a popcorn and drink
The omniplex are showing movies that have already been. Some of them are on Blu-ray now so even if it was safe I will be holding off. If there is going to be a second wave let’s make sure it’s a small little one.
Cinema is a great experience, great to feck off on me todd with a back pack full of tesco munchies! Sat up the back, lump some bags of minstrels and m&m into me giant bag of popcorn, few bags of haribo & im in my element for 2 hours!
Once they allow to visit cinemas without facemasks (and with some distancing) and the right movie is there, I would go again.
I wont watch in cinema still risk , I will use Netflix at home safe
@Brian Flavin: have you not completed Netflix at this stage?
@my name: I dont care to have watch on Netflix & rakuten no problem safe than cinema risk sit there up to 3 hours depend movie
Are they gona clean every seat after every film??
32% of the time, it works everytime.
Yes, can’t wait but probably won’t go anytime soon. I’ve been wondering when it will be safe enough to go to concerts again – I’d miss that more than the cinema..
They’re all the the dodgy box at home. I’m grand thanks.
@Jonnie Marre: enjoy yer crappy audio and cam video.
The same people complain there’s nothing good out because they don’t pay to see the good stuff when it is out.
Leechers.
can these polls get anymore childish
When they get some decent movies in
Hopefully it will mean that when you book your seat for a quiet show someone hasn’t taken it when you get there cos it was a good seat.
I can make my own popcorn in the kitchen and drink TK red lemonade while watching a DVD movie on my laptop.
Same 75/25 split as for travel also.
I’ve already been , I never get snacks etc, not worth the money but I LOVE the cinema
There are so many people objecting to stuff in films nowadays you’ll sit through the opening titles and it’ll jump to the closing titles so no feelings are hurt.
Ennis cinema muck
I can sit in the comfort of my own home watching anything I want for practically free on a 65” screen with surround sound, with my own food and drink and no strangers coughing, munching or whispering beside me. And I can pause if I need a go to the toilet.
I haven’t bothered with the cinema since we had 32” inch TVs and crap internet!
Ill go when something I want to see is on
If this hadnt happened I would have seen Mulan
I dont know what the story is with release dates for films yet as everything is pushed back and still very uncertain with whats happening in the US. Hollywood studios are unlikely to release films until cinemas in New York and California are back open
Last time i was there was for True Grit with Jeff Bridges All the people in front were using their mobile phones and it’s annoying . Besides Digital projection is not the same as 35mm film .
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