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Ballina Cinema Closed

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    #32
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users Posts: 9,504 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    http://www.mayomovieworld.ie/

    Haven't seen it yet, will probably go this weekend though.


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    #33
    RedRiverRiot
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭RedRiverRiot


    Hey guys any word on this? Just moved back to Ballina for the summer to see family and living without a cinema sucks!


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    #34
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users Posts: 9,504 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    RedRiverRiot wrote: »
    Hey guys any word on this? Just moved back to Ballina for the summer to see family and living without a cinema sucks!

    Haven't heard anything, boxes stacked up inside it on Saturday though.


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    #35
    Hennesm
    Registered Users Posts: 134 ✭✭Hennesm


    Went past today. Workmen said it was opening again in two weeks!


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    #36
    Ilovelucy
    Registered Users Posts: 705 ✭✭✭Ilovelucy


    Hope so - we really miss it in this house.


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    #37
    Hennesm
    Registered Users Posts: 134 ✭✭Hennesm


    We miss it too, missed so many good films over the summer !


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    #38
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users Posts: 9,504 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    Was in Castlebar at the weekend to see Elysium, i hope Ballina cinema returns and has decent popcorn as the stuff in Castlebar is muck.


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    #39
    Richie71
    Registered Users Posts: 131 ✭✭Richie71


    Anyone know if it's being run by the same crowd or is there somebody new taking over?


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    #40
    Richie71
    Registered Users Posts: 131 ✭✭Richie71


    Anyone know if it's being run by the same crowd or is there somebody new taking over?


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    #41
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Richie71 wrote: »
    Anyone know if it's being run by the same crowd or is there somebody new taking over?

    If it really is being reopened then they would be retarded to let the same people run it. The management there was ridicolous, they ran the place into the ground and hadn't the first clue about how to get people in.


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    #42
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users Posts: 9,504 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    Deleted User wrote: »
    If it really is being reopened then they would be retarded to let the same people run it. The management there was ridicolous, they ran the place into the ground and hadn't the first clue about how to get people in.

    Agreed. Castlebar do a fair few special offers for parents/kids and students.


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    #43
    Ilovelucy
    Registered Users Posts: 705 ✭✭✭Ilovelucy


    Lots of activity up there today - they seemed to be plastering over where the ticket office that never opened was!


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    #44
    sassyball
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭sassyball


    This cinema was ran great in the beginning it was only in the later years it became bad and that was all the doing of one particular person.


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    #45
    am i bovvered
    Registered Users Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭am i bovvered


    If it is ran well we will be regular customers... we had so many bad experiences in the ballina cinema !!!


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    #46
    Daisy M
    Registered Users Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭Daisy M


    I disagree it was never well ran, screen was usually focused incorrectly this would happen quiet a few times during each film in the first few years, less so in recent times but it still occurred. They never did anything to attract customers, they expected them to flock in which they didn't, the place had no atmosphere and while it was a much nicer building than Castlebar it failed to attract.

    I think it has a lot of potential, hopefully if it does reopen it will do well.


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    #47
    finisklin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭finisklin


    It was cold in the winter as well. Always used to wear layers and have a scarf handy.

    Best of luck to new gang running it. Hope it is a success.


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    #48
    christy_weezer
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭christy_weezer


    really glad to hear this, living in west sligo it was the closest cinema we had, definitely agree about it being poorly run before though, hope the new crowd do a good job!


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    #49
    Hennesm
    Registered Users Posts: 134 ✭✭Hennesm


    They are advertising for a cinema manager on jobs.ie!


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    #50
    sassyball
    Registered Users Posts: 6 ✭sassyball


    I am talking about when it first opened it was extremly well ran it was until the first batch of mangement left that it all went downhill


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    #51
    Faith2013
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭Faith2013


    Daisy M wrote: »
    I disagree it was never well ran, screen was usually focused incorrectly this would happen quiet a few times during each film in the first few years, less so in recent times but it still occurred. They never did anything to attract customers, they expected them to flock in which they didn't, the place had no atmosphere and while it was a much nicer building than Castlebar it failed to attract.

    I think it has a lot of potential, hopefully if it does reopen it will do well.

    Yeap... Worst managed cinema in Ireland. The focusing of the movie was constant issue,, you would have to leave the movie to ask them to refocus it.

    Also they didn't do much to promote the place in Ballina. Hopefully the new manager will be better.


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    #52
    Daisy M
    Registered Users Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭Daisy M


    sassyball wrote: »
    I am talking about when it first opened it was extremly well ran it was until the first batch of mangement left that it all went downhill


    Yes I understood that and disagree completely. In my opinion it was never well ran and was at its lowest when it first opened.


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    #53
    the whole year inn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,099 ✭✭✭the whole year inn


    On the Ballina Community Radio Facebook page says that it is reopening.No date tho.


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    #54
    Faith2013
    Registered Users Posts: 43 ✭Faith2013


    the whole year inn wrote: »
    On the Ballina Community Radio Facebook page says that it is reopening.No date tho.


    I would say pretty soon, they are working on it everyday.


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    #55
    the whole year inn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,099 ✭✭✭the whole year inn


    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ballina-Community-Radio/181482268700979


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    #56
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,080 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Closing date for CVs to manager job is today:

    http://m.jobs.ie/Job/1292266/


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    #57
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Reopening on the 27th of this month.


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    #58
    M.onthemoy
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭M.onthemoy


    Also it has 3D...


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    #59
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,080 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Website: http://www.imccinemas.ie/home.asp?idcinema=35


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    #60
    monument
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,080 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    Breaking news in the Western People today: The cinema is going to reopen.

    ...just two weeks behind this thread and calling it Ballina Cineplex - the old brand.


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    #61
    christy_weezer
    Registered Users Posts: 71 ✭✭christy_weezer


    Anyone go to it yet?


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