Pre-tax profits at Brendan O’Carroll’s movie firm last year rocketed more than threefold to €578,886.

DVD sales and rentals of ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie’ are largely driving profits at the newly combind Xtravision/HMV business this year, the company has said.

The combined HMV and Xtra-vision business in Ireland is to make "substantial profits" this year.

Twenty-six new HMV stores are to open around the country as specialist ‘shop-in-shop’ projects within Xtra-vision outlets in the coming months.

The future of film rental company Xtra-vision has been secured with British commercial restructuring firm Hilco Capital buying it from receivership for an undisclosed sum.