Our picture-perfect memories of Cork's Capitol Cinema

As the wrecking ball hits Cork’s Capitol Cineplex, Ellie O’Byrne gets nostalgic with people from the world of film, music, and theatre and hears about some of their visits to the flicks on the Grand Parade

The demolition of the old Capitol Cinema on Cork’s Grand Parade to make way for a €50 million retail development is stirring up more than dust and old film reels — for generations of Cork people, it’s stirring up memories too.

Cinema’s heyday was already over when the Capitol Cinema reopened in 1989 as the Capitol Cineplex, the first multi-screen cinema outside Dublin, a 1,100-seat, six-screen theatre that served the cinema-going public in Cork until its closure in 2005.