Drive-in cinema gears up for launch

WORK continues at a feverish rate to ensure Ireland’s first drive-in cinema will open to the public next week.

The cinema, which is the brainchild of three Cork-based businessman, will have a monster 17 metre high, 20 metre-wide screen and tiered, canopy covered parking spaces for 100 cars.

Stephen Redmond, Paul O’Sullivan and John Caulfield came up with the idea a couple of years ago, but only started to put it into practice when they leased a site at the Fota Retail Park in Carrigtwohill.