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Do you use your phone in the cinema? Alamy Stock Photo

Poll: Is it acceptable to use your phone in the cinema?

Have your say on cinema etiquette.

THE DAYS ARE getting shorter, the weather is getting colder, and with plenty of new movies coming out soon some will head to the cinema to spend the dark evenings.

However, varying levels of cinema etiquette can often cast a shadow when trying to enjoy a new film.

Some cinemagoers can find it hard to disconnect from their phone and will deem it perfectly reasonable to answer texts during a movie, while others find the glare of a bright phone screen in a darkened theatre distracting (and quite frankly, rude) – we want to know what you think.

So today we’re asking: Is it acceptable to use your phone in the cinema?


Poll Results:

No, absolutely not (9218)
Only sparingly, once you're not distracting anyone else (1800)
Yes, what's the big deal? (234)

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    Mute I Crow
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 1:53 PM

    Since when are big bag of cans with the lads classed as groceries?

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    Mute Bilbo Baggins
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 2:18 PM

    @I Crow: They’re more than groceries , they’re staples!!!

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    Mute mcgoo
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 3:19 PM

    I’m basically 95% Bulmers and 5% Iceberger these days.

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    Mute Pajo Mata
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 2:17 PM

    That’s hilarious. Heatwave- buy extra groceries, clothes, furniture, toys…. Poor weather conditions- buy extra groceries, clothes, toys. Buy buy buy!

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    Mute Martin Sinnott
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 1:55 PM

    Where do kantar get these figures ? How accurate are they. Dunnes, lild and Aldi are private companies and don’t give out this information.

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    Mute Pajo Mata
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 2:21 PM

    @Martin Sinnott: from the named research firm in the article. You are very suspicious. Hope you haven’t had a bad experience in the past making you not trust people.

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    Mute Dave Hammond
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 2:59 PM

    @Martin Sinnott: private companies supply data all the time for many reasons , they want to know how they are performing in market share ? They want to compare how their competitors are performing , research is conducted all the time for all kinds of data , mobile companies want to know their market share , car companies the list is endless , being private companies doesn’t mean they won’t share performance information , most industries have some credible source , in this case kantar are the reputable research company and as they monitor the data ongoing basis you can sure it is pretty accurate actually

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    Mute David Dickson
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 3:12 PM

    @Dave Hammond: Lidl/Aldi are on top now with 23.1% and they are the best.

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    Mute Rochelle
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 5:10 PM

    @Martin Sinnott: They give a sample audience scanners and pay them to record their weekly shopping (you can apply for those positions), that data is used for the trends and market share projections.
    Only part of the data is made public, the specifics are sold back to the supermarkets.

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    Mute Dotty Dunleary
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 1:55 PM

    The price of a bottle of sunscreen is just amazing €10 to €15 on average!

    Previously for at home in Ireland one bottle of factor 15 would still have a good bit left in it for at least 2 or 3 years…

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    Mute DaisyMay
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 2:16 PM

    @Dotty Dunleary: try Aldi’s sunscreen

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    Mute Bilbo Baggins
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 2:21 PM

    @Dotty Dunleary: I wonder what street it is you’re buying your sunscreen on, because it’s not the same street as I’m buying my sunscreen on. Down to Lildi with ya.

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    Mute Sam Harms
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 3:14 PM

    @Dotty Dunleary: I paid €30 for a bottle in the Dominican Republic last year, €10-15 is cheap in comparison!

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    Mute Dotty Dunleary
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 4:05 PM

    @DaisyMay: If I wanted to end up like a lobster attracting flies I will! :-D

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    Mute Dotty Dunleary
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 4:05 PM

    @Sam Harms: Big windows in that shop for tourists I’d say!

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    Mute The Bull McCabe
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 2:39 PM

    I thought the country was broke?

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    Mute Dáithí
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 3:25 PM

    @The Bull McCabe: your about 7 years behind , nearly a full employment now.

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    Mute Artur Gurta
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 5:11 PM

    SuperValu dying a slow death. No value= lower sales. They been slipping constantly on this market research but done nothing about it?

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    Mute sue
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 8:04 PM

    @Artur Gurta: not what i read recently. Ill try and find the article for you

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    Mute Peter Murphy
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 4:57 PM

    How can four million people spend twenty seven pounds on groceries

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    Mute Quentin Moriarty
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 10:33 PM

    @Peter Murphy: bags of ice probably account for 12 million

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    Mute eastsmer
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 3:38 PM

    They normally wait outside the doors of these supermarkets to ask buyers for their receipts for to do the market research.

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    Mute Kevin Cashin
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 2:37 PM

    How can Supervalue sales only go up 0.1% and all others roughly 2.5 %?

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    Mute Me_a_monkey
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 3:11 PM

    @Kevin Cashin: because they’re expensive and they’re products have gone downhill

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    Mute Nick Drake
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 5:38 PM

    @Me_a_monkey: *their

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    Mute James O'Brien
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    Jul 2nd 2018, 5:14 PM

    No thanks to the propaganda spread by some media outlets.

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