Summer not so hot for cinema owners

Spurling family hopes for good year-end

Graham Spurling, director of the group that owns Movies@Dundrum Picture: Bryan Meade

The family-owned cinema group which controls 34 screens in the east of the country is hoping the last quarter of the year will make up for the heatwave-induced summer income drought.

“A combination of the World Cup and the hot weather made it a difficult summer,” said Graham Spurling, who runs the group that owns Movies@Dundrum and Movies@Swords in Dublin, along with cinemas in Gorey in Co Wexford and Dungarvan in Co Waterford. ...