OmniplexMAXX screen to capitalise on Irish hunger for cinema

The Republic’s first giant screen OmniplexMAXX format cinema is to be sited at Mahon Point in Cork.

It will be operated by Omniplex, the biggest cinema chain on the island. Omniplex already run two giant format screens north of the border, in Antrim and Newry.

The company, owned by businessman Paul Anderson, is investing €4m in upgrading the Mahon Point cinema complex, which will be converted to digital screening, the latest in cinema technology.