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Chinatown’s Firehouse Cinema is an ideal landing spot for Luke McManus and his 86-minute journey from the Phoenix Park eastwards to the final shot of Kellie Harrington and her Olympic gold medal’s open bus tour past adoring fans and off beyond the Five Lamps.

A neighbour of Kellie Harrington's family, from Portland Row in Dublin, Aeo Gately watching her bout on a big screen when Kellie contested the Tokyo 2020 Olympics lightweight final bout against Beatriz Ferreira of Brazil. Pic: Ray McManus/Sportsfile

Filmmaker Luke McManus is picking up some marketing materials from the Lighthouse Cinema in Dublin the night before he flies to New York City for a weeklong run of his beautiful documentary North Circular.

He pauses our phone call to chat with their staff and as he waits for the pull-up banner to be dragged out of storage, he reads out a sign to me over the phone which announces to customers that all three screenings of the smash hit movie Barbie are sold out that evening.