Savoy cinema fails in injunction to prevent development of entertainment venue at former Screen site

An application for an injunction by the owners of Dublin's Savoy Cinema over a plan to turn the former Screen Cinema site into a 500-seat entertainment venue has been struck out by the High Court.

The Dublin Cinema Group (DGG), which owns the Savoy in O'Connell Street, sought the injunction because it fears the Balark Group, to which the Screen was sold to in 2016, is going to open a cinema or theatre there. If it did, DCG says, that would breach a restrictive covenant in the sale agreement which meant the Screen could not be used as a cinema or theatre until 2036.