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Michael Moynihan: When did it become acceptable to use a mobile phone at the cinema?

Michael Moynihan: When did it become acceptable to use a mobile phone at the cinema?

'Someone is paying to go to an event and then ... ignoring that event in favour of the phone they have with them, an item available to them all day anyway. Where’s the logic in that?'

Coffee the other day with a pal at Mahon Point.

As we sipped pensively we were passed by punters headed for the cinema. Many of them were dressed in shocking pink, visibly thrumming with excitement, no doubt looking forward eagerly to seeing the life story of an extraordinary individual whose iron will and sharp decisions bent an entire society to accepting an entirely new world order in which nothing would ever be the same again.

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