Screen cinema site owners agree restriction will apply to future owner, High Court hears

The company which owns the former Screen Cinema site in Dublin has agreed that a restriction on its title preventing its use as a cinema or theatre until 2036 will also apply to any successor in title, the High Court has heard.

Pat Crean's Balark group, which bought it in 2016 from the Dublin Cinema Group (DCG), owners of the Savoy Cinema, is however asking the court to strike out DCG's proceedings over the matter which Balark claims are a "stone in the shoe" to future development of the site.