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UCI Tallaght cinema to close

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  • #52
    ian_m
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭ian_m


    3DataModem wrote: »
    Does this mean anything for the UCI in Coolock?

    No.


  • #53
    SteM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,859 ✭✭✭SteM


    There's a sign up on this place now saying it is reopening as an IMC cinema. Didn't see a date though.


  • #54
    Butch Cassidy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Butch Cassidy


    SteM wrote: »
    There's a sign up on this place now saying it is reopening as an IMC cinema. Didn't see a date though.
    Not a Pennys then?


  • #55
    SteM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,859 ✭✭✭SteM


    Butch Cassidy wrote: »
    Not a Pennys then?


    Not in that location anyway. From what i've been told they looked at it and felt it wasn't suitable.


  • #56
    Butch Cassidy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Butch Cassidy


    SteM wrote: »
    Not in that location anyway. From what i've been told they looked at it and felt it wasn't suitable.
    This begs the question why the Square Mgmt didn't renew the contract with UCI forcing it to close only to have another cinema open in the same spot...


  • #57
    SteM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,859 ✭✭✭SteM


    UCI have been there since the place opened. Perhaps the Square upped their rent by to much? Maybe the SQ management felt they could get higher paying tenants?

    Not to sure to be honest but a cinema is needed there imo, much happier to have one go in than a Pennys.


  • #58
    Butch Cassidy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Butch Cassidy


    SteM wrote: »
    UCI have been there since the place opened. Perhaps the Square upped their rent by to much? Maybe the SQ management felt they could get higher paying tenants?

    Not to sure to be honest but a cinema is needed there imo, much happier to have one go in than a Pennys.
    The official line was that the Square decided not to renew the contract. Total bs obviously.


  • #59
    nemo90
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭nemo90


    Hey.

    Myself and friends worked in UCI tallaght wen it closed etc, just wondering, does anyone know when and how to apply for a job to work in the new cinema in the square or somewhere i could find out?? would appreciate it.


  • #60
    Advertkriz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭Advertkriz


    nemo90 wrote: »
    Hey.

    Myself and friends worked in UCI tallaght wen it closed etc, just wondering, does anyone know when and how to apply for a job to work in the new cinema in the square or somewhere i could find out?? would appreciate it.

    I would also like to know how to apply.


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  • #61
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,850 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    unreggd wrote: »
    Its bullsh;t

    I'd say the square hiked the rent up to a price they defo couldnt afford to get them out, say the same happened with Zavvi

    Er, the entire Zavvi chain accross the UK and Ireland went into liquidation. Nothing to do with the Square.
    There was issue with the name as there's an Odeon bar but the truth was probably closer to the fact that no one wanted to invest in it ie. the owners.

    You're probably right re the latter. The former may be tied up to when Ward Anderson took over Odeon's assets in Ireland in the early 1980s.

    EEL seem to be milking the cross-promotion opportunities of the UCI cinemas for all its worth, I see Leisureplex and TFI Friday adverts every time I am there.


  • #62
    Butch Cassidy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Butch Cassidy


    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2010/0708/1224274266559.html

    Butler brothers' company in profit


    CAROLINE MADDEN

    A PROPERTY company owned by Colum and Ciaran Butler, the brothers behind the Leisureplex chain, had built up an accumulated profit of just over €683,000 at the end of July 2009.

    ...

    They also bought three Irish cinemas in the UCI chain in September 2006 through their company Entertainment Enterprises.

    The chain’s Tallaght cinema was later bought by developer and solicitor Noel Smyth as part of his planned redevelopment of the Square shopping centre.

    However, rival developer Liam Carroll subsequently sued Colum Butler following a dispute over the sale of the cinema.


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