New liquidator appointed to Pálás cinema’s troubled former company

The Revenue Commissioners’ nominee has now been confirmed by the High Court

Galway’s Pálás cinema, designed by renowned Irish architect Tom de Paor Andrew Downes
Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe, owners of Element Pictures

The Revenue Commissioners have secured the appointment of a new liquidator to Solas, the controversial company formerly behind the arthouse Pálás cinema in Galway.

Solas Galway Picture Palace collapsed in July of last year, having received more than €7.5 million in state funding for the cinema, along with a site acquired by Galway City Council in 2007 for €1.9 million.

Conor O’Boyle of O’Boyle and Associates ...